LAS VEGAS – Donald Cerrone is content in his post-fighting career.
Cerrone (36-17 MMA, 23-14 UFC) hung up his gloves a year ago after a submission loss to Jim Miller. He was inducted in the UFC’s 2023 Hall of Fame this past Thursday.
“Cowboy” has bulked up majorly in retirement and said he is enjoying the perks of no longer being in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) testing pool.
“I have two fights left, and to have 50 would be cool,” Cerrone told MMA Junkie and other reporters Thursday on the UFC Hall of Fame red carpet. “Fifty would be a cool number. (I’m) not saying it’s happening – not saying I’m itching for it to happen. But maybe one day it will.
“I mean, right now, all the good sh*t after the non-USADA approved sh*t, I feel like I’m f*cking 21 again. You know what I’m saying? I’m telling you, guys – any of you fighters, when you’re done, go ahead and get on the TRT and put your wife in a bind because that’s when you’ll feel like an 18-year-old boy again.”
Cerrone says it would need to be a massive figure to entice him out of retirement and get him to fight again. Otherwise, he’s happy where he is in life.
“I made great money in the UFC. Dana White treated me great. I don’t need the money,” Cerrone said. “I’m not itching because I need a couple of hundred thousand dollars. It would have to be such a crazy number where I’m like, ‘Eh, f*ck it, I could use $5 million.'”
