Looking back now, Charles McCarthy can admit he was probably more or less retired as a fighter before he fought Michael Bisping at UFC 83. He just couldn’t admit it then, possibly because he didn’t have the kind of manager that he has since become, which is to say the kind who will give it to you straight even when you don’t want to hear it. That’s ironic, since back then Charles McCarthy’s manager was none other than Charles McCarthy. “But when it’s yourself and your own career,” McCarthy told MMAjunkie, “you think unrealistically sometimes.” McCarthy didn’t realize that back then, of course
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How UFC vet Charles McCarthy has put a career’s worth of mistakes to good use – MMA Junkie