Carlos Condit has been back in action for all of two months and is already shaping up as one of the welterweight division’s biggest wild cards.
Prior to his comeback victory over Thiago Alves in May, it had been more than a year since we’d seen Condit inside the Octagon. The former UFC 170-pound interim champion missed significant time—and a few major divisional plot twists—as he rehabbed a knee injury suffered during a loss to Tyron Woodley.
Now, one second-round, technical-knockout victory later, here he is: No. 1 contender all over again.
The UFC went a bit outside the box on Wednesday, as it confirmed an earlier report by Bleacher Report’s Jeremy Botter that Condit will be next up for welterweight champion Robbie Lawler.