UFC lightweight Jared Gordon was far from 100 percent for his last Octagon appearance, but he has a good reason for it.
Gordon was involved in a street fight outside a barber shop in Queens, N.Y., this past December that resulted in him nearly losing three fingers. Gordon and a friend who trains Brazilian jiu-jitsu were talking to one of the friend’s former students when the group was attacked by what Gordon called “two gang members.” One of the two gang members spat in the ex-student’s face and took a swing at him, and that’s when Gordon and his friend stepped in to intervene.