För några veckor sedan fick vi veta att Brian Stann lämnar sin roll som expertkommentator för UFC. Beskedet kom oväntat och beslutet förvånade många då Stann var mycket uppskattad för sin analytikerroll.
LÄS OCKSÅ: Brian Stann lämnar sitt jobb som UFC-kommentator
Nu väljer den tidigare UFC-mellanviktaren att förklara varför han lämnade företaget. I ett nyligt avsnitt av The MMA Hour öppnar Stann upp om de olika anledningarna. En av de största var att han ville spendera mer tid med familjen, något det blivit knappt med tid för under tiden som UFC-expert. Då spenderade han 26 veckor om året på att resa runt med organisationen.
“I spent the entire (past) weekend with my kids, and I’ve been able to do that for several weekends in a row, which doesn’t typically happen for me, and that’s a big reason why this switch took place. As you know, I love calling fights, and I loved being a sports analyst. I loved my time in college football and I loved my time calling fights in the UFC, and for a long time I thought, ‘hey, this is something I’m going to do for the next 15 to 20 years.’ The difficulty becomes, obviously, that you’re always working the weekends. Just for a stateside fight in the country, I would leave on Thursday, I wouldn’t come home until Sunday. If I was going out of the country, which I did a lot of international shows, I would leave on a Wednesday, I wouldn’t get home until Monday,” säger Stann.
“I did 26 shows last year alone, that’s half the weekends. And even if I didn’t work a regular job — which I do — even if I didn’t work a regular job, that’s a lot of time to be away from my family. And as my girls get older, I mean, I’m missing soccer games, I can’t coach any of my kids’ teams. Eventually I’m going to start missing semis, homecoming, proms, things of that nature if this is my chosen career path. And ultimately, in addition to the time away from family, there’s just no guarantees in television, right? Things can change in the heat of the moment.”
En annan sak som fick Stann att lämna UFC-rollen är viljan att göra något större av sitt liv:
“We don’t know what network the UFC is going to be on in a year-and-a-half. They don’t know. They’re going to go through those deals, and for guys like me, what happens? I’ve got three kids, and as comfortable and secure as I feel in my abilities as an analyst, there’s a lot that’s up in air that’s kind of left to chance there. And then, really the third reason, and this would occur to me a lot — as much as I loved calling fights and I thought about my future, I’m not building anything, I’m not leading anything, and I just, I didn’t want that to be my career. When I look back at what I’ve done with the best years of my professional life, I didn’t want to just say, ‘Man, I called some really great fights.’ I wanted to do something a little bit more than that,” säger Stann.
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