Favorite semi-retired great

[BigMuffler]

'Semi-retired' might be a bit of an exaggeration for some of them (in fact one has a fight scheduled), but who is your favorite UFC fighter who is always injured, has been injured forever, is apparently on a self-imposed exile from competition, or is just extremely inactive?

Cain Velasquez former champion
Shogun Rua MMA legend and former champion
Tim Kennedy possible top 5
Nick Diaz former title contender who beat Robbie Lawler
Khabib Nurmagomedov undefeated top contender who beat RDA
Jose Aldo FW GOAT and longstanding P4P great
Rafael Assuncao top contender who beat former champion TJ Dillashaw
Ian McCall top contender who almost beat Mighty Mouse
Cat Zingano top contender who beat Miesha Tate
Carla Esparza former champion
etc

 

[IamStryker]

Conor

 

[yookfarb]

Barnett????????

 

[Reach4theSky]

BJ Penn

 

[BigMuffler]

Barnett????????

He got off the list with 2 recent fights close together, like any of these guys would get off if they managed to have 2 fights in a reasonable time span.

 

[Usogui]

John Hathaway
Paul Sass

 

[Th3Sav4ge]

rashad has a fight but i still pick him

 

[Kneepocalypse]

The Beej

 

[Hagelslag2]

GSP

 

[HHJ]

Fedor

 

[CerebralKnievel]

Hendo
Hendo
Hendo

 

[SpaceCommissar]

Fedor
Shogun
Overeem

Now, it's wrong to call Overeem semi-retired, I know, but I'm thinking this way: he's already been through lots of fights at extremely high levels throughout his career, the only real challenge he has left is the UFC belt. I really don't think he'll stick around for much longer - he's from an old generation fighters, probably closer to retirement than most of us are willing to admit.

 

[2 COOL]

Dada 5000

 

[Gio]

Nick and BJ.

Even Anderson Silva say they are the best.

 

[Goatenstein]

Pedro Otavio

 

[mbach4307]

Ken shamrock

Edit: now that I think about it Woodley. He took a hiatus from fighting because it's good for his brand.

 

[touchedbyjab]

BJ Penn - put on some badass bouts, especially when motiviated
Fedor - GOAT, bounced heads off the mat with savage GnP like no one had or ever will
A. Silva - I remember when the matrix worked
W. Silva - Juiced Silva was knee'ing peoples heads clean off
Shogun - Pride LHW division was brutal and a young Rua was kicking ass
Nick Diaz - fun fighter to watch

I can't pick a favorite, but everytime one of these guys is on a card, I just think man they are going to look like shit compared to their prime, but I have to route for them.

 

[giusti825]

Rampage