Mauricio Rua’s run in the UFC hasn’t been an easy one, and the former UFC light heavyweight champion needs to answer questions about retirement every month -- and those questions are not coming from the media.

"Shogun" returns to the Octagon on Nov. 8 against Jimi Manuwa, but his family constantly asks his to stop fighting.

"My mother asks me ‘you really have to fight?’" Rua told TV show "Agora é Tarde" in Brazil on Wednesday, "and I say that’s my job, mom."

Rua entered the UFC in 2007 with a 16-2 record, but went 6-7 inside the Octagon with four stoppage losses. According to the MMA veteran, his wife Renata Rua wants him to retire.

"I do this for 13 years," he said. "Every month, my wife and my mother meet and try to make me stop (fighting), but I tell them that’s what I love to do."