UFC star Norma Dumont has announced that she is leaving the promotion with two fights left on her contract.

She had lost her last two fights to Ailin Perez and Joselyne Edwards, but both were decisions and it was expected that she would get to fight out her deal. However, she has been considering her future and decided that boxing is an ambition she has before retiring altogether.

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Prior to her two defeats this year, Dumont had been on a lengthy winning streak that lasted the best part of four years. Now, she is taking the leap to move away from the biggest promotion in combat sports to pursue other opportunities.

Norma Dumont announces UFC exit on social media

Fans were surprised on Tuesday night when Norma Dumont took to Instagram to reveal that she had been granted her release by the UFC. She noted that a path to world title glory seemed too long given her plans to retire soon, and that she wanted to try something else; namely boxing.

“I feel like I need to experience some new environments now,” Dumont said in Portuguese (according to an MMAJunkie translation). “We reached this decision recently – over the last month, I’ve been talking a lot with my team.

“Here’s the situation: I still had two fights left on my contract with the organization. Even before my last bout, when I still had three fights to go, I already knew that I likely wouldn’t be renewing my contract once those remaining two fights were finished.

“So, I started thinking: ‘Well, I’m not going to be able to reach a title shot with just these last two fights, am I?’ It reached a point where I began to wonder if I should just wrap up my career.

“I had already discussed with my partner that I planned to retire by the end of next year, or perhaps even sooner, because we want to start a family. So, I found myself asking: ‘How exactly should I bring my career to an end?'”