Demian Maia has been in a tricky spot in his MMA career as it appears he's close to the end but still has a little bit left. He's no longer on the UFC roster but is hoping to fix that before calling it.

In an interview with Luke Thomas of Morning Kombat, Demian Maia noted that he wasn't ready to retire without one final fight in the UFC. The Brazilian has been competing in grappling matches before making a return.

“No, I’m not officially retired,” said Maia. “I want to do one more fight in the UFC but I don’t want to fight in any other event because UFC is my house. It has been my house for the last 15 years. If I get another chance, I will do one more fight there, but I am pretty much more focused on the other parts of my career. I’m still training some MMA. I’m still doing boxing and Thai boxing with takedowns. These kinds of things. I want to keep these sharp if I need to do one more fight.

“At the same time, I’ve focused a lot on jiu-jitsu again, sport jiu-jitsu, because I want to compete more under these kinds of rules,” continued Maia. “One thing is that I feel pretty healthy. I feel pretty well in terms of conditioning. So I said why not give me a couple more years fighting in jiu-jitsu or MMA and then retire.”

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Dana White has said in the past that the UFC wasn't looking to bring back Demian Maia after his final fight. The Brazilian is still hoping the promotion will be able to make something work in the future.

“It depends much more on the UFC than on me, but I would do one more,” said Maia. “Of course, they would like to do, for sure, a longer contract but for me, I can do a longer contract but it doesn’t matter because I would do one more fight.”