Akira Corassani Retires Following Loss to Sam Sicilia at UFC on Fox 14
by Chris Houten - @ChrisHoutenMMA & Ben Heather - @benheather
32-year-old Swedish featherweight, Akira Corassani has announced his retirement from MMA after losing to American Sam Sicilia at UFC on Fox 14 in his native Sweden.
MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani appeared on the UFC on Fox 14 post fight show suggesting Corrassani had told him he would retire:
"Look Ariel, I could fight until I'm dead, I will fight until I am dead but my brain just can't take it anymore."
Corrassani later appeared on Sweden’s TV4 Sport and announced his retirement citing a "glass jaw" as his reason for hanging up his gloves in a post fight interview with the channel. He said:
“When you take a punch and fall down… enough is enough”. “Life is in chapters, and I have had a fantastic career. This will just be a new chapter in my life.”
A pro since 2007 Corassani became more recognisable when he was on The Ultimate Fighter season 12 as part of Team Bisping. Corassani made his octagon debut in September 2012 stepping in to the cage with a 9-3-1 NC and walking away with a split decision victory over Andy Ogle.
Corassani followed that up with a victory over Robbie Peralta before an illegal knee by Maximo Blanco gave him a 3-0 start to his UFC career and put him in contention of breaking in to the top 10 in the featherweight division. At the start of 2014 Corassani was given the toughest test of his career against top contender Dustin Poirier and although the fight didn't go his way he certainly had his chances and rocked Poirier at one point. That fight also earned Corassani and Poirier a UFC post fight bonus, the only of his career.
Following that loss to Poirier he ended up with back to back knock out losses in Stockholm and walks away with a 12-6-1 NC record and went 3-3 in the UFC.
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