\u201cThe Wizard\u201d is planning a comeback.<\/p>\n
It has been four years and five months since Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) submission ace Ryan Hall \u2014 a.k.a. the \u201cmaster of the 50\/50<\/a>\u201d \u2014 has competed inside the Octagon, and for the most part, he has been M.I.A.<\/p>\n Hall has been mentioned by UFC fighters Cory Sandhagen and Chase Hooper, who have gone to train with him over the last couple of years, but other than that, there has been basically nothing.<\/p>\n However, during a rare podcast appearance with Matt Serra, the unique grappler gave an update on where he has been and revealed that he is planning a comeback.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a while, man,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t really trained in almost three years. I\u2019m still good, but not sharp, if that makes sense. I\u2019m working to get back to it. I had 23 surgeries in three years \u2014 that wasn\u2019t great, and some of them were pretty major. And some of them the doctors goofed up, which they had to do again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want to come back to do well, but it\u2019s also for my son,\u201d Hall continued. \u201cHe\u2019s only seven, and he\u2019s spent most of his life seeing his dad be a mess. I want to come back, win, lose, or draw, and show him something a little bit different. I know I have enough left for one or two more fights at a very high level. It\u2019s just whether or not we get the opportunity because you never know where life will take you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe timing of the UFC was tough,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI got dodged for a lot of years and got ducked by a lot of the guys in the rankings when I got there.\u201d<\/p>\n In a previous interview in 2020, Hall named ranked fighters such<\/a> as Josh Emmett, Renato Moicano and Calvin Kattar as opponents who turned him down.<\/p>\n Hall\u2019s lone UFC loss came to current Lightweight champion Ilia Topuria, who figured out his puzzle and knocked him out in the first round (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cThe Wizard\u201d rebounded from his first UFC loss by defeating Darrick Minner, but he hasn\u2019t competed since.<\/p>\n With the division looking completely different since his absence, it is tough to know where Hall fits at this point. However, with only one or two fights left before he calls it a career, UFC should be able to find him a couple of fun grappling matchups.<\/p>\n Although, yeah, we all missed out on Hall vs. Kron Gracie.<\/p>\n