After a career that stretched more than 15 years, former WEC champion and onetime pound-for-pound great Miguel Torres has announced his retirement from MMA. The 36-year-old fighter, based just outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana, posted on his Facebook account that the rigors of running a business – his MMA academy in East Chicago, Ind. – along with family obligations and training for fights were too much combined to allow him to compete the way he once did. Torres (44-9) leaves the sport on a winning note after a submission win this past September over Lloyd Carter for a United Combat League show in the venue he became a local legend in, the Hammond (Ind.) Civic Center
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Former pound-for-pound great, WEC champ Miguel Torres announces MMA retirement – MMA Junkie