COCONUT CREEK, Fla. – After beating Max Griffin at UFC on ESPN+ 2 earlier this year, 35-year-old veteran Thiago Alves set a deadline for his retirement from MMA. “100 percent by 37 I don’t want to be fighting anymore,” Alves said at the time . “We got two more years of war.” Just because he’s leaving MMA, though, it doesn’t mean the former UFC title challenger will be leaving the line of fire. Alves (23-13 MMA, 15-10 UFC) is currently booked to meet Laureano Staropoli (14-6 MMA, 2-4 UFC) in yet another home country battle, at UFC 237 in Rio de Janeiro, in one of the two bouts he has left on his UFC contract
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With MMA retirement looming, UFC 237′s Thiago Alves planning to become a police officer – MMA Junkie