CHICAGO – For a few years now Kurt Pellegrino has been trying to convince himself that his fighting days are truly done, but for some reason he just couldn’t get the retirement to take. Maybe that’s because he needed a little help, even if he didn’t realize it until he got it in the form of a successful UFC debut by his student, welterweight George Sullivan (15-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC), who defeated Mike Rhodes (6-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) via unanimous decision on the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC on FOX 10 event at Chicago’s United Center. Simply making the trip with Sullivan was somewhat therapeutic for Pellegrino, he said, though he wasn’t quite prepared for the emotions it would evoke. “Just coming here, it was very weird,” Pellegrino told MMAjunkie.
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With student’s victory, emotional UFC vet Kurt Pellegrino can finally say farewell – MMA Junkie