KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - APRIL 26: A item changeable of the gloves of Anthony Smith aft his last conflict successful the UFC aft being defeated by Zhang Mingyang of China successful a ray heavyweight conflict during the UFC Fight Night arena astatine T-Mobile Center connected April 26, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)
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Edson Barboza called it a profession successful Philadelphia connected the main paper of UFC 330. Esteban Ribovics proved to beryllium excessively overmuch for the Brazilian legend, battering him to a TKO nonaccomplishment and into retirement. Let's talk UFC.
Edson Barboza vs. Esteban Ribovics Key Facts
- Winner: Esteban Ribovics
- Retiring: Edson Barboza
- Official result: TKO, Round 2, 1:32
- Event: UFC 330, Makhachev vs. Machado Garry
- Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
- Venue: Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Card position: Main card
- Barboza's age: 40
- Professional grounds entering: 24-14
- Last win: Sodiq Yusuff, October 14, 2023
Ribovics vanished it astatine 1:32 of the 2nd round, and Barboza split his shin successful the first and kept going. His past triumph came against Sodiq Yusuff successful October 2023, and this nonaccomplishment makes 4 successful a row. He told Joe Rogan afterward, "Every azygous conflict I promise, I did my best," past laid his gloves down connected the main card he had fought his measurement onto.
The extremity came arsenic it does for galore once-great fighters. Barboza, 40, has mislaid 4 consecutive and hasn't won since October 2023. What's worse, he has mislaid by stoppage successful the past 2 fights and taken tons of damage. Once known for his fierce striking, powerfulness limb kicks, instrumentality kicks and punches. Unfortunately, he has been reduced to a protector of the combatant who erstwhile made his people successful the featherweight and lightweight divisions.
It's been an era of retirements arsenic respective fighters person announced an extremity to their careers successful 2026. Perhaps location are much to come. It's particularly absorbing timing arsenic we're seeing different play of Dana White's Contender Series inject caller humor into the roster.
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MMA Retirements successful 2026
- Cub Swanson: retired successful the Octagon aft a TKO triumph complete Nate Landwehr astatine UFC 327, April
- Gilbert Burns: retired aft a TKO nonaccomplishment to Mike Malott astatine UFC Winnipeg, April
- Ronda Rousey: final MMA conflict astatine MVP MMA 1, May
- Colby Covington: retired from the UFC, May
- Hailey Cowan: retired astatine 34 aft a body-shot KO astatine UFC Belgrade, August
- Darren Elkins: retired aft a 35-second TKO nonaccomplishment astatine UFC Vegas 120, August
- Court McGee: announced UFC 332 connected October 3 arsenic his status fight, August
- Edson Barboza: retired successful the Octagon astatine UFC 330, August
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