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Damon Martin, MMA Fighting, and one of the biggest stories of the week was the news that

former UFC Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold was going to be making his return to action

after hinting at the potential end of his career just 10 months ago.

So with that, let's talk to Luke and see what he has to say about his return and when we will likely see him fight again.

Let me just start with the biggest question, man, obviously we know the word is out there.

You're going to be coming back.

When we talked last November, you didn't use the word retirement you specifically told me you weren't using the word retirement because you weren't sure the future was going to hold but you said at that point

You're pretty good with not fighting so what changed what led you to this decision

to want to fight again?

Well I wanted time to do the things I haven't been able to do and travel and not have any

barriers of training camps and all these things and so just getting around traveling doing a lot, you know, I've been doing a bit, getting

out to Montana, getting out to places that aren't so crowded, a little more free wheeling, to say the least, and just, you know, enjoying life, doing things traveling and things I couldn't I wasn't able to do.

Letting my body heal up too. I mean there's I was compromising myself so much you know

last few years and so you know I opted to get a shoulder surgery and fixed my labrum and my rotator cuff that was kind of nagging at me for a while and

and then uh you know, the world's, like I said, the world's fucking boring.

I need some more excitement. I mean, it kind of really comes down to that.

At least, I mean, options are limited.

I do miss fighting.

Fighting is, it's a part of me. I still have a lot left in me and the world's

fucking boring and I need I need something more.

Is it you know when you uh when you, you know, when you, uh, when you were, you know, when you were taking time off, you know, and you were kind of doing some other things at that point, your head wasn't, you just weren't into fighting at that point. Is it one of those situations where I know it's cheesy to save,

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