MMAFighting’s MMA Hour<\/a>. \u201cIt was time. For a lot of different reasons. After that last fight, I felt like I put together a good camp and I was just a step behind Max. I feel like I could really try to tweak things and I could try to figure out what\u2019s missing, what part of the formula isn\u2019t working right now and then go and test it again and test it again, but that\u2019s a tough thing to do. That\u2019s a tough thing to do because ultimately I have to go and put myself on the firing line to see if what I\u2019m doing is working. At a certain point there\u2019s diminishing returns, so I think it\u2019s time to move on.\u201d<\/p>\nCarlos Condit is the former interim welterweight champion and has beaten the who’s who at welterweight. He was known as an action fighter and for “The Natural Born Killer” he says he loved every second of his time as an MMA fighter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s really tough,\u201d Condit said. \u201cI\u2019ve loved every f*cking second of it. The ups, the downs, all of it. If I had to pick a specific one, these last two fights that I won when we were out in Abu Dhabi and really just living in this surreal atmosphere. My coaches are all my really good friends and we had the opportunity to go to this crazy nice place and fight. That was a lot of fun. But I have 19, almost 20 years worth of memories so it would be really hard to pinpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n
What is your favorite Carlos Condit memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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