Din Thomas retirement announcement

    by Bloomvapor: Din Thomas

    Din Thomas announced he is retiring from cornering fighters. The decision comes after Gillian Robertson lost to Mackenzie Dern via Unanimous Decision at UFC330 tonight.

    Transcript (en)

    And for me and for my announcement, I do have an announcement for you guys. I told myself I would continue to do this until I took Jillian as far as she could go. I think that might be as far as she could go. And I am officially retiring from cornering fighters tonight. Wow. Yes. You're doing the Matt Serra? I'm doing the Matt Serra. I am no longer cornering fighters. Can we not decide this the night of? Maybe you need time to sit on this? I've been sitting on that, and I'm telling you now that that's what I'm doing. That's breaking news. Why? It's just I told myself that I would do this with her. I would see her journey out and take her as far as I think she can go. And this might be as far as she can go. But, Dean, you have so many great fighters that you work with. You know, like, you're going to still work with them. I'm the host of Deep Waters now. That's true. That's true. You are big time. You know what I enjoy about you in the corner, though? You talk different in the corner. I talk different? Yes, you do. Well, I'm a thug, too. The gangster comes out. We get the polished-up version up here. Well, Dean, you've been an amazing coach. If this really is the end of your coaching journey. Well, I still work with guys. You just don't want to go down there and do all that. Okay, that's fair to me. What is it about the cornering that is the one thing that you don't want? It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of stress. It's a lot of work. You got to be there all week. And again, like, I've been slowly telling you, like, I don't cut weight with them. And it's not fair to them. They need somebody who's going to really put that type of work in with them.