Donald Cerrone is ending his retirement after just over two years out of the Octagon.

The MMA icon hung up his gloves in July 2022 after suffering a submission loss to Jim Miller at UFC 276.

Cerrone is 41 years old and has lost his last six fightsGETTY

However, ‘Cowboy’ has announced that he is planning to make a comeback despite the fact he is currently riding a six-fight losing streak.

“I want to go back [to the UFC] and get two more fights,” Cerrone said in a video uploaded to his Instagram page.

“When I retired, I told you I was getting my hair done and getting on steroids.”

Cerrone has competed 48 times under the Zuffa banner for the UFC and WEC but wants to make it 50 fights before his career is all said and done.

“The number 50 has been sitting on my mind for a while,” he continued.

Cerrone admits he has been taking TRT, and ‘a bunch of peptides’ for the last couple of years.

But now he is coming off the performance enhancers in the hope of getting back into the UFC drug-testing pool.

“For all you people who are like, ‘Oh, what if you get on it, you can’t ever come off?’” Cerrone added.

“Well, I now have to come off and p*** clean.”

Cerrone then revealed that he plans to fight ‘in a few months’.

McGregor knocked out Cerrone in 2020Getty Images – Getty

The 41-year-old has competed 38 times in the UFC making him the third most active fighter in the company’s history behind Jim Miller and Andrei Arlovski.

He has been a part of some massive fights including a clash with Conor McGregor in 2020 that ended in a first-round knockout victory for the Irishman.

The news that Cerrone is planning to make a comeback has been met with dismay from MMA fans, who flooded to the comment section of his video to voice their displeasure.

One supporter wrote: “No. Why? Just no.”

Another posted: “Please don’t let this happen.”

A third commented: “Watching this video was a bit depressing.”

Meanwhile, somebody else remarked: “Somebody is going to sleep him.”

Cerrone was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame last year and appears to have nothing left to achieve in the sport.

However, the allure of fighting has pulled him back in, like so many great athletes before him.