Recently cleared to begin training again after a May submission loss to Gegard Mousasi, UFC middleweight Mark Munoz has signed a new four-fight deal with the promotion while he awaits his next opponent.

“There’s no fight on the horizon yet, but I’m definitely looking forward to stepping back inside the octagon,” he told MMAjunkie Radio. “This year hasn’t been quite the year I wanted, but I’ma guy that’s doing a lot of things with my gym, with teaching and running wrestling clinics and having a professional fighting career. Also, having a wife and kids. Sometimes I stretch it too far, but I’m learning how to prioritize.”

Munoz (13-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) said his frenetic pace recently prompted an intervention from coaches and associates who wanted him to delegate, but he doesn’t seem interested in paring down his schedule too much.

A seminar series entitles Series of Legends is the latest venture for the veteran fighter, 36, who reached out to a handful of amateur wrestling champions to lead the once-a-month gatherings designed to improve mat skills.

Munoz said his list of teachers includes Jordan Burroughs, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist, Kyle Dake, who won four NCAA titles in four different weight classes, Anthony Robles, who won an NCAA title despite having only one leg, and UFC light heavyweight contender Daniel Cormier, among others. The series kicked off this past September and continues throughout 2015.

“These guys don’t do camps or clinics,” Munoz said. “A lot of them are focused on their career or their coaching careers. A lot of them are still competing at the international level, so they’re very busy. When I called them and told them my vision, they said, ‘We’ll do it for you,’ which is awesome.

“It’s an awesome opportunity for kids to learn from the best. There’s a lot of good wrestlers from the area, and that’s why I wanted to do this clinic series. I had a hard time naming this (series), but these are all legends of the sport. Some of them are still building their legacy in the sport. I’m looking to bring these guys in and make an impact in Orange County.”

Munoz said the idea was motivated in part by the International Olympic Committee’s controversial decision to cut wrestling from the 2020 Olympics.

“I’ve always been an advocate of wrestling, and in the past, when the IOC decided to discontinue the sport of wrestling, that put me in a tailspin, so I had to try to rally the troops and restore the vigor of wrestling.

“In MMA, the majority of the champions are wrestlers, and to be able to kind of reinstate the excitement of wrestling, and for people to see something like this on the national level, even hopefully on the world level, it’s something very rare. No one has ever done this, and it’s taken a lot for me to organize this and put it together into one clinic series.”

Attendees get a two-and-a-half hour session with the teachers as well as a Q&A session, signing and photographs.

Munoz might not be fighting just yet, but he’s still on the move, at least until the next intervention.

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