Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Aisling
Daly has announced that she is hanging up her gloves. Monday,
the 29-year-old Irish fighter posted via Instagram that an
abnormality on a recent brain scan led her to retire.
“I will be officially retiring from the sport of MMA. This past
year a routine brain scan showed up evidence of an abnormality, the
remnant of a small haemorrhage that had taken place at some point
in the months previous,” Daly wrote. “It would be unlikely I would
be medically cleared to compete again, even in the event I could
find a doctor who would clear me it would be very unwise for me to
continue to compete with the risks involved.”
One of the first standouts to emerge from John
Kavanagh's SBG Ireland gym, Daly fought professionally for
nearly 10 years. Debuting in May 2007 in Denmark, Daly was a
trailblazer for both Irish MMA, as well as women's MMA across
Europe.
Daly last competed in October 2015, earning a unanimous decision
victory over Brazilian Erick
Almeida in her native Dublin at
UFC Fight Night 76. “Ais the Bash” put together a 2-1 UFC mark
after competing on the 20th season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” where
she punched out Angela
Magana, then lost a unanimous decision to Jessica
Penne.