After 14 years as a pro, here’s how former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans finally knew he was finished. It wasn’t the first-round knockout loss to Anthony Smith at UFC 225. It wasn’t the four consecutive losses that had led up to that point, either. Instead, it was something much simpler but also much harder for Evans to reason his way around. “I just didn’t believe the story I was telling myself anymore,” Evans said. But wait, in order to understand what that means, you first need to understand the role of the “story” in the life of a pro fighter
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The stories fighters tell themselves – and what happens when they stop working – MMA Junkie