Vitor Belfort ’s original retirement fight plans didn’t go exactly as planned. But, now set to retire in a home bout against a fellow ex-champ, it’s all silver linings for “The Phenom.” Belfort was supposed to have met Uriah Hall in a UFC Fight Night 124 encounter in January. It had long been known that Belfort had only one fight left on his UFC contract after a UFC 212 win over Nate Maquardt and, ahead of the meeting with Hall, “The Phenom” confirmed it would also be the final fight of his MMA career. As we know, Belfort got as far as making weight, but the middleweight encounter was scrapped after Hall fell ill . Looking back on it weeks later, Belfort recalls the immediate blow. “The first pain was in my pocket,” Belfort told MMAjunkie