UFC Fighter Details Intense Street Brawl That Nearly Took Three Of His Fingers

Back in Dec. 22, 2017, UFC lightweight Jared Gordon entered an intense street brawl that has recently been making its way around the internet. Now the mixed martial artist has come forward with some of the details concerning the intense altercation.

The fighter was enjoying a moment of conversation with his friend Jeffrey Gallardo from just outside of Gallardo’s barbershop when two individuals approached and began a physical altercation. Speaking to MMA Fighting, Gordon offered some details concerning the altercation.

“As we’re walking back, my friend recognizes this kid that he used to teach jiu-jitsu to. He looked like he was in his early twenties, like 23 or 24, something like that. So we start walking back towards the barbershop and they’re talking, I’m just drinking my coffee, minding my business. I’d never met the kid in my life. And those two kids came out of nowhere, I guess they must’ve had some problems with him, and they attacked him. But I was just standing there watching.

“When my friend jumped in and the kid kinda pushed my friend and was posturing like he was going to hit him, that’s when I decided to take matters into my whole own hands.”

“Of course we hit into the f*cking storefront window and it comes crashing down on me and cuts my hand wide open, my fingers.”

“Luck of the draw for me, as always. I got 21 stitches.”

“Ten days later, I get the stitches out. I’m training and I go to take this kid down, he sprawls and I hold onto his leg, and my middle finger just pops wide back open. Like, really dead. It felt and looked worse than the original injury. So I get stitched up by a plastic surgeon. A week later, I’m in Grand Central Station, it’s soaking wet out, the whole subway station is wet and I’m walking up the escalator and my feet just come out from under me, and I like flew down the escalator. Smacked my hand on the floor, I start bleeding. I clean it up, it looks alright, the stitches didn’t come out.

“So, I wake up the next morning and my finger is just completely infected. I go back to the same plastic surgeon, he has to take the stitches out, drain it, and then pack it with gauze. So now I have like an open wound on my hand, this gaping hole on my finger, and my finger is really the size of a sausage. It was ridiculous. That took about four weeks for it to close, and then that was like already a week before my next fight, so it just had closed up, like scabbed over by the time a week before the fight. And actually when I was at the fights in Austin, the doctor was like, ‘Oh, what happened to your hand?’ When they were doing the pre-fight medicals. Like, ‘Oh, that’s just an old injury,’ I just kinda brushed it off.”

Check out photos of the gruesome injury down below: