Rashad Evans has competed just once in the last two-and-a-half years, and that one performance wasn’t particularly stirring. Evans, who blew out his knee ahead of his scheduled fight against Daniel Cormier at UFC 170, returned after a nearly two-year absence against Ryan Bader at UFC 192 in Houston this past October, and dropped a listless decision.
Heading into his next bout — a co-main event against Glover Teixeira at UFC on FOX 19 in Tampa on April 16 — "Suga" says he just didn’t feel like himself in there again Bader, and there were plenty of factors that played into that.