Is Roger Gracie's MMA career over? No confirmation yet but Roger Gracie has yet to make a decision about his next step as a professional fighter.
The multiple-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Roger Gracie was released from the UFC following a unanimous decision loss to Tim Kennedy at UFC 162 and said he would wait for 2014 to make a decision. However it is 2014 now but he's still undecided.
In an interview with MMA Fighting.com he said, "To tell you the truth, I haven't decided my future yet, I spent a month in Brazil, and now my students will compete at the European (Jiu-Jitsu Championship) in Lisbon, so I will help them and then decide what's next for me."
Roger Gracie said retirement is an option, but feels he's too young to stop fighting.
"(I don't know) if I'm going to retire, go back to jiu-jitsu or fight MMA," he said. "This is my dilemma. I'm taking my time to make up my mind, I don't want to rush it. I will make a decision in the coming weeks. I can't let the time pass or I can't do one thing or another.
"It's my love for fighting," he said. "I believe I'm young to retire now. I know that I will have to retire one day, but not now. I can compete at the highest level. I'm still deciding which way I'm going. I haven't competed in jiu-jitsu for four years. And MMA, I don't know if I'm going this way. I'm in doubt."
Should he decide to return to MMA, the Strikeforce and UFC veteran has a few promotions interested in signing him he confirmed.
"We received a lot of offers," he said. "My manager (Jorge Guimaraes) analyzed them, but I haven't decided my future yet, so that's why we haven't signed anything yet."