Matt Brown appears to be very much on-board with Jim Miller’s suggestion that they fight at UFC 300 in April, and he’s also added that it could be a perfect opportunity to call time on his career too.
“It would be an honor,” Brown said on ‘The Fighter vs. The Writer’ show. “I love Jim Miller. Much respect for him. The only downside is he is a [155-pounder] so he’d be coming up to my weight class. If anything, it would be an advantage for him because he wouldn’t be cutting weight and I would, so it would be a little advantageous [for him]. But he would be the smaller guy. That would take a little bit away from it.
“But the fact is, I’m at the tail end of my career. I get on [UFC] 300, there’s a good chance that could be my last fight.”
The 43-year-old then went on to explain in more detail why he’s getting close to hanging up his gloves for good.
“I’d say a pretty good chance, to be honest [that it’s my final fight]. Just life isn’t what it used to be. The kids are growing up. I miss so many things of theirs for training. It’s kind of to that point now, where my son’s in wrestling season right now and I don’t want to be missing his wrestling matches, because I’ve got to go train. I want to go to his wrestling matches. On top of that, I’ve got so many up-and-coming fighters that just aren’t really getting any attention from me. I’ve got some f****** killers, some guys you’re going to see in the UFC soon, and I can’t really help them out a whole lot.
“I’ve just got a lot of other things going on. I’ve kind of lost my passion for fighting, but I feel like life is taking me down a different road right now. It’s just a different season of my life.”
“They’re at that age where they’re going to remember if I was there,” Brown said as he continued to express his desire to spend more time with his family. “Like, my boys being 13, my daughter’s eight — of course they’ll remember when they were younger, too, but they’re at that age now if my son goes and wins a wrestling match and my other son, he’s a huge golfer, he goes and wins a golf match, they’re going to remember that I was standing there watching and took pictures at the podium. They’re going to remember if I wasn’t [there] also.
“Of course those memories of going to UFC 300, they get to come out there, and they’ll remember that too, but I’d rather them remember me being at their match than them being at my match.”
At this stage there’s no guarantee that the UFC will be on-board with Brown fighting Miller at UFC 300, but it does seem like there’s a good chance as it would be a fitting occasion for a clash of two veterans who have each been competing for the promotion since 2008.
“I think we’re both deserving of it. I think we’re both deserving of that card. What else can I say? That’s a fun place for us to be and it brings a good fight to the card. I say either open the main [card] or close the prelims, which, I’d be fine to close the prelims too. There’s going to be a lot of people watching those, and especially with our names closing out the prelims, I think there’d be a lot more people watching. I’d be stoked.”
