Carlos Condit

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Former Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC’s Welterweight Championship’s interim belt holder Carlos Condit has already fought everyone in the top five of the division and for someone like that; the only thing left to do is have rematches. The former king pin of the 170 lbs division at World Extreme Cage Fighting or the WEC has a record of 5-3 since he moved to the UFC Octagon, having won against the likes of Rory MacDonald and Nick Diaz and suffered losses to Johnny Hendricks and the reigning champion Georges St. Pierre.

And with Bigg Rigg being the last person to defeat him inside the Octagon of the UFC, The Natural Born Killer has admitted that he would love to have another shot at facing Johnny Hendricks. Speaking to the media regarding his future, Carlos Condit stated that the fight he had with Hendricks was extremely exciting. He mentioned there are a lot of guys in the top five or even in the top ten of the division that he has already taken on and that creates the scenario for a lot of exciting rematches.

He also mentioned that Rory MacDonald is also another fight that he would like to have. He stated that there is a lot of unfinished business that he has against him before going on to state that while he was sitting on stage at the press conference after UFC 158, he looked to his right and then to his left and thought that he had fought all the fighters sitting with him.

Joe Silva, the match maker at UFC already tried the rematch with MacDonald but injury ruled him out of the match which forced them to pair up Hendricks and Condit. Now, the UFC could try and pair Nick Diaz against Carlos Condit as well.

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Carlos Condit is a Mixed Martial Artist from the United States of America, currently signed on by the premier Mixed Martial Arts promotion in the world the Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC where he competes as a Welterweight fighter and is also a former interim UFC Welterweight champion. The UFC’s official website UFC.com ranks him as the second best Welterweight fighter as of the latest rankings released in March.

His first foray into the world of Mixed Martial Arts came with the World Extreme Cage Fighting or the WEC where he was the last holder of the WEC Welterweight Championship. He has also had stints fighting in the Pancrase and Shootboxing promotions in Japan. After WEC was absorbed into the UFC, Condit was signed on to compete in the promotion, and he has quickly gone on to become one of the prized fighters in the promotion. When the reigning UFC Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre was injured, he fought for the interim title in the division and came out on top.

Carlos Condit made his debut with the WEC at WEC 25 and won his very first match in the promotion, defeating Kyle Jensen in the first round via submission. His all action style garnered a lot of attention and he quickly began climbing up the pecking order in the WEC. When the WEC Welterweight Championship was vacated, Condit got an opportunity to fight for the title in just his second fight in the promotion to become the champion.

Carlos Condit boasts of a record of 28 wins from 35 fights in the professional career winning 13 of those fights via knockout and 13 via submission. He also holds the honor of not being knocked out in his entire career, something not many fighters can be able to boast.

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