Condit: Jones said ‘I’ll be back’
Carlos Condit: “He said, ‘I’ll be back, I’m going to be back.’ I believe him, there’s no doubt. I think there’s a good chance. In his mind he’s fighting again.”
Former interim UFC welterweight champion Carlos Condit appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and discussed the potential return of his Jackson/Wink MMA teammate former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.
“Jon’s been around the gym a little bit, which is good,” said Condit as transcribed by Dave Doyle for MMAjunkie. “I like to see him down there. It’s a crazy situation that he’s going to have to deal with. I think having him in gym doing what he does best, training and trying to keep that side of his life going, is a good thing. [I] Talked to him briefly, but not about incident but about situation. He said, ‘I’ll be back, I’m going to be back.’ I believe him, there’s no doubt. I think there’s a good chance. In his mind he’s fighting again.”
Condit has not fought in well over a year, following a knee injury in a fight with Tyron Woodley. The fighter told Helwani what happened.
“As far as I know, the knee was fine going into the fight,” he said. “On a takedown, something weird happened, I’m almost positive that’s where I blew out ACL. I popped back up and got kicked in my other leg. When I went to pivot, I had no ACL knee and the knee just buckled. He initiated the takedown, I hurt my knee on the takedown. I get taken down quite a bit I don’t always blow my ACL I just think it was kind of a freak thing. I give credit to him, he was winning the fight and then I lost on an injury, but he won the fight. I’m not taking anything away from him.”
Carlos Condit fights Thiago Alves in the main event of UFC Fight Night 67 on May 30 in Goiania, Brazil, live on Fox Sports 1.
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