UFC middleweight Ryan Janes announces retirement

Ryan Janes has decided to hang up his gloves for good.

The UFC middleweight told BloodyElbow.com on Tuesday that he is retiring from mixed martial arts. Janes said he actually made the decision earlier this year, but didn’t make a public announcement because he was unsure whether it was “relevant.”

Janes, who most recently defeated Andrew Sanchez by third-round TKO in a come-from-behind victory last December, said once he had his first child in March, he had to put MMA on the back-burner.

He signed a new deal with the UFC and received a few fight offers closer to the beginning of the year, but turned them down to take care of his newborn baby and support his partner. After a few months on the…