Rashad Evans surprised many people when he announced he was coming out of retirement and signing for Khabib Nurmagomedov and his MMA promotion, Eagle FC.

The move came almost four years after he retired from the UFC. Many figured Rashad Evans would be elected into the Hall of Fame and his MMA career would be done for good. Evans recently spoke to MMAFighting‘s Damon Martin for Fighter vs. Writer via MiddleEasy.

“I really liked what Khabib was doing. I really liked what they did with the space and where they wanted to take it and stuff like that, the vision that they have at Eagle. To fight for somebody who’s a former fighter and still have that mindset, still have his pulse on what a fighter needs was something that appealed to me as well.”

Rashad Evans appears to have found new fire in MMA and truly wants to compete again. Eagle FC could be the right organization for him.

“It all about the right timing, the right opportunity. You know, ever since I retired I’ve been making my way back to MMA as far as my love for it and the feeling that I had for it when I originally started, because towards the end of my career I just kinda fizzled out to the point where I really didn’t wanna be in there and I wasn’t really connected to the fight and I really wasn’t bringing forth the part of myself that I know I can bring forth.

“So, it was bittersweet towards the end of my career in the UFC but through the years of training afterward, I started to find that love again for fighting and fighting for MMA. So, I was like, ‘You know what? Let me just do it one more time for the one time.'”