Leonard Garcia is content with his decision to hang up the gloves, but he’s not done with the combat sports world. In 1999, Garcia (18-13-1 MMA, 2-1 BKFC) made his professional MMA debut and gave 21 years of his blood, sweat, and tears to combat sports competition up until his retirement earlier this year in March. With memorable fights in the UFC, WEC, Legacy FC, and most recently BKFC, Garcia has numerous exciting fights on his resume. Time catches up to everyone, and Garcia is grateful he can exit competition without a need to compete, whether it be mentally or finacially. “If you made a good career and you made right decisions in your life, you should have something to fall back on and that helped me a lot,” Garcia told MMA Junkie after BKFC 19. “I had something to fall back on and I had that support and I had everything else, so it’s like right now it’s just an itch, it’s not a need…I mean, once you’re a fighter, you’re always a fighter.