Leben ‘training excessively’ – is a comeback next?
Could 22-time UFC veteran Chris Leben be eyeing a return to the cage? “The Crippler” wouldn’t tip his hand but did admit he’s “training excessively”.
UFC veteran Chris Leben has been training like a madman, trying to get his body ‘back in working order’, after a 120 day stint in jail. Will he be back in the cage?
At 35 years old, could 22-time UFC veteran Chris Leben be eyeing a return to the cage? The Crippler wouldn’t tip his hand but did admit he’s training excessively after recently completing his sentence at a California jail.
I don’t want to preemptively throw anything out there, you know what I’m saying? Leben explained to MMAjunkie. We’ll just say I’m training excessively right now. What that means, I’ll leave it up to interpretation.
Here’s the thing, you know – obviously I got suspended after I fought Mark Munoz, Leben said. Then that next year in Hawaii, I didn’t drink for a year. I moved to San Diego, and I didn’t drink; I didn’t do anything. I was only on the medication I was getting from my doctor. I would have told you I was completely sober, but obviously that did something to me. The medication, Suboxone, is definitely sedating. So now that I’m off of it, I’m just really motivated, and I have a lot more energy. When I’m in the gym, I have like this laser focus that I haven’t felt in years, you know?
It’s really exciting to be in there training with these 21-year-old kids and doing well against kids that, you know, the next generation. I mean, they might be 21 or 22, but man, they grew up in the sport. They’ve been doing it for a decade already. And I’m in there, especially in standup, holding my own with them. I’m still gassing out by the end of practice, but I’m training twice a day, five times a week. The weight is slowly but surely coming back under control. So I’m trying to get my body back in order.
