{"id":543309,"date":"2026-03-16T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:19:08","slug":"eryk-anders-retires-after-win-at-ufc-vegas-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543309\/","title":{"rendered":"Eryk Anders retires after win at UFC Vegas 114"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Veteran Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight Eryk Anders scored the final win of his career when he defeated fellow veteran Brad Tavares via unanimous decision at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/427989\/ufc-vegas-114-live-results-highlights-play-by-play-emmett-vs-vallejos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 114<\/a> yesterday (Sat., March 14, 2026) inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat\u2019s it for me, man,\u201d Anders said during his in-cage interview with Michael Bisping. \u201cI\u2019ve had a hell of a career. I got a win out here in front of my son, so that\u2019s huge for me. I just don\u2019t have the balls for this stuff no more, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Watch Anders\u2019 retirement speech below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYa Boi\u201d entered the promotion with plenty of hype thanks to his background as a former linebacker for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. While he never quite reached title contention, he carved out a long and respectable UFC career spanning 20 fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Among his most notable wins are victories over Gerald Meerschaert, Kyle Daukaus, Chris Weidman \u2014 and now Tavares in the final bout of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vegas 114 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/427989\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight Eryk Anders scored the final win of his career when he defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,6656,14855],"class_list":["post-543309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-videos","tag-ufc-results","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}