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UFC vet Chris Lytle happy in retirement, but willing to fight underground for millionaires

Chris Lytle is happy in retirement, but the UFC veteran told MMAjunkie.com Radio (MMAjunkie.com Radio | MMAjunkie.com) he sees a few scenarios in which he could be lured back to the cage.

One would be a late-notice opportunity in which he's not stuck in a three-month training camp and away from his family.

The second is a bit odder – and would require an underground fight venue with rich men smoking cigars, drinking wine and betting a million dollars on his fight.

The lure of the cage, though, is strong for the 37-year-old. He has no immediate plans to return to it, but he admits the right opportunity would be tempting.

"I'd love to, but the reason I decided to stop fighting was because I just wasn't being a good dad," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "If I came back and fought again ... it'd be that I know the right thing and wasn't doing it. That'd be very hard for me to do."

But he sees a scenario in which he could both be with his family and fight again.

"I've talked to a couple people, and ... here's the only condition in which I'd take a fight," he said. "Let's say it's about four days out (from a UFC) event, and someone got hurt. And it was the right kind of fight, and they say, 'We need you Chris.' Then I might do it because I'm still in pretty good shape. And if I didn't have to go out and spend all day training, spend time away from my family, I'd do that. I'd hop in last minute. That wouldn't be too bad. That could be a possibility."

Another possibility? Brace yourself. Because he knows it's a bit far-fetched.

"Now, this is going to sound a little crazy, but I know there's someplace where you know like (UFC president) Dana White and his real rich friends – some of the richest people in America – sit around and in some dark room and have cocktails and smoke cigars, and they're betting a million (dollars) on these little underground fights," he said. "Hey man, just bring me out there for a day. I'll do one of these underground fights, and nobody has to know about it.

"That would be fun for me because it'd be the competition I enjoy. I would do that. So if you hear any real rich people putting on these fights, let me know. I'll show up."

But haven't we seen this before with Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson's backyard events – or in nearly every 1980s martial-arts movie and post-apocolytpic thrillers about the future? Lytle laughs and lets us know his standards are higher.

"It's not going to be with a bunch of idiots betting 500 bucks," he joked. "I want to be in one of these nice, classy places. People in there drinking wine or smoking cigars. Probably not wine, actually. Whatever rich people drink. It'd be high-end. People betting $500,000 per fight. ... Not somewhere were they're betting craps with their drug money on the side."

In all seriousness, though, Lytle likely won't be fighting above or below ground. He made promises to his family, and he plans to stick by them

UFC vet Chris Lytle happy in retirement, but willing to fight underground for millionaires | MMAjunkie.com

[mmawolverine]

bring back lights out, lytle can put koscheck to bed for us

[lwbrewer]

I cou;d see one of the smaller Orgs trying to call him out, but to be in pretty good shape won't cut it most of the time in the UFC.