Rich Franklin is a former UFC middleweight champion and a long-time “at the ready” guy for the promotion. He was willing to bounce between middleweight and light heavyweight and take catchweight bouts against seemingly all comers.
He’s also been out of competition since his brutal KO loss to Cung Le in November of 2012.
Now an executive for Asian MMA promotion ONE FC, Franklin has a fight left on his UFC contract and is still interested in possibly pursuing that one last trip to the Octagon.
Franklin discussed how close he is to deciding on a return with Submission Radio:
No, not yet. I’m really acclimating to this job right now. It’s a decision that I’ll have to make real soon, and I really need to sit down with the people at ONE FC and talk about that. Like the reality of – because I have some responsibilities here, and I’m travelling, I’m travelling quite a bit back and forth between and State and Asia now – and with the reality is with me continuing with my responsibilities with ONE FC, and then also prepping for a fight and all that kind of stuff. And I’ll have to sit down with them real soon and talk with them about that. Because I’m getting at a point now where I need to pull the trigger on that last fight, because I’m so far distanced from my previous fight, that basically if I’m gonna do something I need to do it now
You can hear the complete interview in this video: