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Maia: I was thinking about my life
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<p>UFC Fight Night 62 main event fighter Demian Maia is returning to action after almost a year off due to battling a bone infection. Maia today spoke about just how much the scare affected his training and life:</p>
"At one point, I wasn't even thinking about my fight career, I was thinking about my life," Maia said. "Thinking about my family and kids because you never know what's going to happen. You don't know how your body will react, you don't know how the infection will react. At one point, I was not even thinking about my fight career -- I was thinking about my life."
The treatment for the bone infection was a constant flow of antibiotics into Maia's bloodstream to combat the disease and during the time he was receiving treatment, the veteran fighter had to stop training all together. It was the first time since he was a child that Maia wasn't on the mats or doing some kind of fighting training and that's when he knew this was going to be an uphill battle to return to do what he loved.
"I took three months of antibiotics and a big part of this was IV antibiotics and after that I was finally clean. I've never gone so much without training. For three months, I was running a little bit and I was working out but not doing any fight training. It was tough," Maia described.
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