Citing an abnormality that showed up on a recent brain scan, UFC women’s strawweight Aisling Daly today announced her retirement from MMA. Daly (16-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC) has not fought since a unanimous decision win over Ericka Almeida at UFC Fight Night 76 in October 2015, which took place in her home city of Dublin. In a post on her Facebook page, the 29-year-old Irish veteran fighter said a routine brain scan in 2016 showed “the remnant of a small haemorrhage that had taken place at some point in the months previous.” And because of that, Daly believes even if she wanted to continue her career, she would be unlikely to get medical clearance to compete. “My career has ended prematurely but I’m very grateful for my long list of achievements, I am and will always be ‘Ais the first’ for so many things, my legacy set in stone in the history of Irish mixed martial arts,” Daly said in her post. “… I’m very proud of the barriers I’ve broken down and the doors I have opened to others coming behind me both male and female
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