It was as if he never left.
Stepping into the Octagon for the first time in 441 days, Carlos Condit shredded Thiago Alves with a second-round elbow strike that led to a technical knockout in the UFC Fight Night “Condit vs. Alves” main event on Saturday at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil. The cageside physician took one look at the Brazilian’s disfigured nose in between rounds two and three before deeming him unfit to continue. With that, Condit re-established himself as an integral part of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s welterweight division.
The “Natural Born Killer” showed no ill effects from the knee injury that required reconstructive surgery and sidelined him for more than a year.