UFC lightweight Jared Gordon had quite a rough time recently when he ended up in a bloody street fight.
At the time of the assault Gordon was having a cup of coffee with a former BJJ student when two thugs approached the men, spit on them, and started swinging wildly.
He told Bloody Elbow:
“That’s when I jumped him. We all started fighting. My friend starts fighting the other kid, and they bumped into me and the kid I was fighting. We hit the storefront window, and the whole thing came down on us.”
“So I was like, ‘F-ck that, I’m not going to jail for the night,’” Gordon said. “I’ve been to jail too many times. The cops said, ‘We’re just going to let it go then.’ It’s not worth the headache. You have to hire a lawyer and go through the whole process. F-ck that.”
Whole fight here: pic.twitter.com/1MRPiBkXnq
— Jared Gordon (@JFlashGordonMMA) July 30, 2018
“I have never brought this up before, because I am not one to make excuses and I don’t want to make it look like I am making excuses,” Gordon said. “I took the fight because I didn’t want to pull out. I had missed weight before in my first fight, and this was my third fight — the last thing that I wanted to do was pull out and have it look like I was having weight cutting problems again or make it look like I am unreliable.”
Gordon continued,“I had a terrible training camp because I couldn’t spar or wrestle or do jiu-jitsu,” he said. “All I did was run and shadow box and kick the bag for the whole fight camp, because I had one hand. Hats off to Diego; he did what he had to do. Nothing against him. But, I just think that if the fight camp didn’t go down the way it did, [the fight] would be different. It is what it is.”
Gordon was seen with a gruesome finger injury:
Some more pics: pic.twitter.com/wQMUxnM6IU
— Jared Gordon (@JFlashGordonMMA) July 30, 2018
