Former Invicta FC Atomweight Champion Jillian DeCoursey has announced her retirement from MMA competition.
The fighter made the announcement on X:
I have rewritten this a bunch of times. I will try and keep this short, I don’t know if I’ll be successful.
— Jillian DeCoursey (@lionheartjill) January 22, 2026
For those who haven’t seen my post on other social media, I wanted to write a separate one here.
I started fighting simply because it looked fun. At that time I had no… pic.twitter.com/PCpCStIQUN
DeCoursey went 6-4-0 during her professional MMA career, with notable fights coming against UFC veteran Elise Reed, Jessica Delboni, Kelly D’Angelo, and Alesha Zappitella. DeCoursey last fought at Invicta FC 53 in May of 2023, losing her atomweight title to Rayanne Dos Santos by unanimous decision.
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