Condit returns to training, excited to be headed back to the octagon

Former WEC welterweight champion, Carlos Condit has revealed that he’s returned to training and excited to be heading back to the octagon following a bad cut and staph infection that saw him hospitalised at the back end of 2009.

Speaking to MMAWeekly.com, Condit said:

“I was kind of moving some stuff around in my garage and I had some old junk. I had a broken dry erase board, like a bulletin board type thing, and I picked it up to kind of toss it over to my trash pile. I kind of Frisbee tossed it, and it had a sharp piece of metal, kind of the surface of the dry erase board, and it sliced me real good. Initially what happened was I went down to urgent care, got some stitches, and they said that I should be cool in a couple days, so nothing really changed for me.”

“I was back to training and everything, but the next day my hand started swelling up and hurting like a son of a (expletive) and that's kind of when I decided I wasn't going to be able to do the fight and then a couple days later I went to see a hand specialist and they admitted me to the hospital right away cause I had a real bad staph infection.”

“I'm getting back in the gym, I'm doing about one (practice) a day so far. I think a month or so to get back in shape and then maybe two and a half months to three months to really hit a hard camp, it would be perfect.”

Rumour has it that the “The Natural Born Killer” will be back in action on June 12th against dangerous Canadian up-and-comer, Rory MacDonald at UFC 115 in Vancouver, Canada. Stay tuned to MMABay for more on this as we get it.

By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)