winning my third title in my third promotion, I’d leave myself one last legacy fight. That would either come against the quasi-retired Georges St-Pierre, to try and topple the king of kings in the welterweight division, or I’d face the unbeaten Khabib Nurmagomedov, the lightweight GOAT who takes people down and pummels them on the ground just like me. In either case, it would be big. And in either case, if all went to plan, I would leave the game after that fight, win or lose. The bone spurs in my hip were arguing with this plan the whole time, however. I was limited in my range of motion,
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