Gray "The Bully" Maynard hopes that current UFC lightweight champion, Frankie Edgar, retains his belt long enough for him to get a fourth bout with "The Answer" according to tatame.com.

"Hopefully he holds on to the belt, because there's got to be a part four, I think, to make it a true trilogy. Now he has one and I do too, so that's a draw. So, we gotta do it again. Hopefully, he holds on the belt and I can work back up there," Maynard said.

Maynard and Edgar have already fought three times in the past, with Maynard getting the best of Edgar via unanimous decision in their first bout at UFC Fight Night: Florian vs. Lauzon. Their second encounter at UFC 125 ended in a draw. However it was Edgar who emerged as the victor at UFC 136 as he rallied from a shaky first round to KO Maynard in the fourth.

"Obviously it was not the outcome that I was hoping for. It happened, I had to deal. I gotta improve on some things and gotta be prepared for the next opponent," Maynard said.

Maynard recently changed camps, leaving his long time home at Xtreme Couture to go train at the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California. Looking ahead, Maynard is unsure of his next matchup in the crowded lightweight division.

"Well, that's a lot of stuff up in the air. I know (Melvin) Guillard got up against Jim Miller. I know (Donald) Cerrone is going to go up against Nate Diaz, so there's a lot of interesting stuff that you kind of have to wait to see what happens. I gotta have a place to train, I gotta be prepared...I like to go up against the best in the world," Maynard said.