A UFC Fighter Almost Lost Three Fingers After a Street Brawl Got Out of Hand… Here’s The Crazy Raw Footage…
Jared Gordon knows all about adversity. He’s a former drug addict, turned professional athlete. The former Cage Fury and Duelo de Gigantes champion now competes in the UFC’s lightweight division. He saw his five-fight winning streak snapped back in February to Carlos Diego Ferreira.
Anyway, Gordon wasn’t best impressed with so-called fans who said he didn’t give one hundred percent in his last fight. As with many situations, there’s more to this than meets the eye. The New Yorker has revealed that he was assaulted in the run-up to that match and was recovering from horrific damage suffered to his hand.
What is it about UFC fighters getting involved in public brawls? The Diaz brothers seem to start one every week – but then they’re a special case. Conor McGregor, Clay Guida, the list goes on and on. It’s not all fun and games though – as Gordon will attest. It almost cost him his fighting career.
Whole fight here: pic.twitter.com/1MRPiBkXnq
— Jared Gordon (@JFlashGordonMMA) July 30, 2018
Not Nice
The whole fight is a little bit crazy. Gordon is stood outside a shop with two friends, drinking his coffee and having a chat when two gang members walk by. One of them stops and says something, before swinging at one of ‘Flash’s’ friends. It all kicks off.
Gordon takes a couple of seconds longer to react but instantly goes full badass. He chucks his coffee on the ground and wades into the fight. Boom – knee, sweep – clearly he’s a different class of fighter to the idiots that started on him.
Unfortunately for Gordon, they fell into the window, shattering it. Yes, it looks epic, but the glass lacerated his fingers. Look at the picture below – that’s seriously nasty. We’re talking about an injury that could have potentially ended his career.
Nasty Cut
As you can see from the image above, his hand was cut to ribbons. On social media, he explained why he never mentioned this in the build-up to the fight. You know the way you always get some moron that’s like, ‘this camp was tough, I pulled a muscle blowing my nose, and we just had to work through it.” Yeah. Gordon isn’t that guy.
“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 told Bloody Elbow. “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.”
What an absolute legend. That’s a true fighter’s mentality right there.
Hardcore
It’s to Flash’s credit that he took the fight. Almost losing several of your fingers is a fair reason to cancel in my books. But he’s hardcore. He explained further:
“I had a terrible training camp because I couldn’t spar or wrestle or do jiu-jitsu. 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.”
If I made a dollar for every time a UFC fighter said ‘it is what it is,’ I’d be extremely rich. But credit to Gordon. He’s a very tough dude, and nothing is going to keep him down.
