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‘The sky is the limit’ - 43-year-old Lyoto Machida rejects retirement talk, calls out Salter

At the ripe age of 43, former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida is not ready to think about retiring from MMA just yet. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

Although the ‘Dragon’ has lost all three of his last outings, Machida believes it may be time to drop back to the middleweight division and begin a new chapter in his Bellator career. With no fights lined up for himself in the near future, Lyoto knows who he would like to welcome him back to the weight class, recent title challenger John Salter.

“First of all, I would like to fight at middleweight.