{"id":243533,"date":"2017-07-03T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=243533"},"modified":"2017-07-03T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:40:05","slug":"former-ufc-middleweight-champion-rich-franklin-says-hed-come-back-right-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rich-franklin\/former-ufc-middleweight-champion-rich-franklin-says-hed-come-back-right-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin says he&#8217;d come back for the right fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, we&#8217;ve seen a long list of MMA legends return to the cage with varying results. We&#8217;ve seen comebacks from Tito Ortiz, Fedor Emelianenko, Wanderlei Silva, Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, and of course, our own <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/bj-penn\/\">BJ Penn<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also heard legends like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chuck-liddell\/bellators-scott-coker-and-chuck-liddell-have-lunch-meeting-in-los-angeles\/\">Chuck Liddell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-ufc-hall-of-famer-matt-hughes-considering-comeback\/\">Matt Hughes<\/a> hint at comebacks.\u00a0On a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/07\/one-championship-retirement-rich-franklin-return-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie Radio,<\/a> former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin and current One Championship Vice President Rich Franklin weighed in on the possibility of his own return to the cage.<\/p>\n<p>While Franklin acknowledged such a thing is possible, he assured it would take a special kind of fight to get him excited enough to make a comeback.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPeople ask me if I miss my career, and the main thing I miss is not necessarily walking into the arena and all that and having your hand raised, but I miss the brotherhood I had prepping for a fight,\u201d Franklin explained.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIs it possible I could come back? I mean, anything\u2019s possible,\u201d he said. \u201cBut is it probable? Not likely. I\u2019ve never really been interested in a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/vitor-belfort\/vitor-belfort-calls-legend-league-fight-chuck-liddell\/\">legends league<\/a>. Just because once you climb to the top of Everest, you wouldn\u2019t say, \u2018Hey, I just you want to climb up Everest and go to base camp.\u2019 It just doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut the right kind of matchup and fight could definitely pique my interest. It\u2019s just not probable, so I don\u2019t really want to give anybody any false hope as if I\u2019m coming back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo look at me, I\u2019m probably actually in better shape with my body feeling the way it feels than I was in my fight career,\u201d he added. \u201cNow, obviously, I\u2019m not in peak physical condition, because you just kind of maintain that kind of conditioning throughout your life. You have to pick and choose when to peak, but yeah, I keep myself in shape.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you be interested in seeing Rich Franklin return to the cage for one last fight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 7\/3\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, we&#8217;ve seen a long list of MMA legends return to the cage with varying results. 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