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Demian Maia on retirement: ‘As long as my performances go well, I will keep going’

On Saturday at the UFC’s ESPN+ 2 card in Fortaleza, Brazil, Demian Maia will be entering his 34th professional fight and his 28th in the UFC. And while inevitable retirement may be looming, the 41-year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ace is not looking towards that direction just yet.

”I do [see retirement coming soon], but not because of the drop in my performance,” Maia told ESPN. “More because of the time I want to have to do other things. When you’re a professional fighter, you pretty much live to train because you never know when you could be called for a fight.