With much buzz and anticipation, Matt Brown and Carlos Condit were set to face each other four years ago, but unfortunately Brown sustained a back injury that forced him out of the fight. The bout was never re-booked and with Brown’s recent statements about potentially retiring from MMA after his fight at UFC Norfolk last November, along with Condit’s own waning interest in the sport, it looked like it may never come to pass.
However, speaking recently with the Fight Society podcast, Brown suggested that he would postpone his “semi-retirement” if a fight with Condit was on the table.
“Maybe it’s time for me and him to lock horns,” said Brown. “I’d love to. I’ve got so much respect for him. Of course, I would love to. Everybody would want to see that fight. It was supposed to happen before. We’ll see what happens. That’s definitely one people would want to see no matter what. It would be a fight for the ages. Now it would certainly be a fight that would make me want to come out of semi-retirement. I haven’t made any decisions on anything. That would be one that would probably wake me up and get me out of bed.”
Condit and Brown made their names as two of the most exciting fighters on the UFC roster. When they were first scheduled to meet, Brown had a six-fight win streak and Condit was only a year removed from having lost his interim UFC title in a unification bout with Georges St-Pierre.
However, both welterweights have fallen when it comes to bout inside the octagon. Condit is currently on a three-fight losing streak, having come up short against Neil Magny at UFC 219. Brown hasn't fared much better, going only 1-3 over that same period of time, though his last bout did see him score a KO over Diego Sanchez. But despite the fact that neither man is really in title contention anymore, Brown insists that any fight between the two of them would be main event worthy, and he hopes UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby agrees with him.