The vice president of Singapore-based MMA promotion ONE Championship still plans to close out his career in the UFC octagon.

Former UFC middleweight Rich Franklin, who hasn’t been in the octagon since 2012, said he has one fight remaining on his current UFC deal and intends to fulfill it.

Admittedly, though, that’s easier said than done. After all, the 40-year-old spends more than a third of his time overseas working for ONE Championship, where his not-so-ceremonial duties range from event production to community/media relations to fan interaction to broadcasting.

Wearing many hats for the growing Asian fight promotion hasn’t left much time for anything else.

“It’s been my goal and dream to fulfill my contract, so it’s still the plan at this point in time,” Franklin told MMAjunkie Radio when asked if he’s still planning to return to the UFC for a fight. “It’s not easy though. Honestly, it’s not going to be easy task for me when I’m spending several weeks over here at a time away from the schools where I train and my coaches and stuff.”

Fighting some of the most prominent names in the sport, Franklin has rotated between wins and losses over his past eight fights. His past two victories have come against Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, but he’s been out of action since a late-2012 knockout loss to former Strikeforce champion Cung Le.

However, since taking the job with ONE Championship in early 2014, Franklin (29-7 MMA, 14-6 UFC) has traveled throughout Asia and the U.S. to promote the organization, host seminars and work with fighters. That’s left little time for him to work on his own skills, which carried him to a UFC title reign from 2005-2006. Additionally, a key figure to get Franklin ready for a fight also recently took a position with ONE Championship.

“Everybody knows I use Matt Hume for the latter part of my career, so I would also have to coordinate with him,” Franklin said. “He’s our matchmaker, so I’d have to coordinate with Matt to run a camp with me as well. But yeah, it’s still part of the plan.”

But, in terms of a target date for that last UFC fight? That’s still a ways off. Franklin said his focus is on a busy end to the 2015 calendar year.

“Really, I haven’t even got to the point where I’ve tried to put a timeframe on it,” he said. “I know that our schedule with ONE gets very big here on the backend of our year. We have several shows in October and several shows in all the later months of this year. We’ll see. We’ll see what shows I have to be out there for and see how it affects my training schedule.”

For more on the UFC’s upcoming schedule, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

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