After more than a year of being on the shelf nursing a torn ACL in his left knee, Carlos Condit came roaring back with a dominant second round stoppage of Thiago Alves. His fiery performance somehow erased the memory of the gruesome injury he suffered against Tyrone Woodley in UFC 171. It has also put the whole Welterweight Division on notice; that he is still a force to be reckoned with inside the Octagon.

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Fox Sports Post-Fight Coverage showed how Condit opened Round 1 with a cautious and tactical repertoire of kicks, jabs, and elbows. Ring rust may have played a factor because his diverse attack could not seem to find the range and timing to negate Alves' successful Muay Thai counter-striking.

Round 2, however, was a different story. Condit came out blazing, and, within a minute, landed a vicious elbow that dropped the Brazilian. Carlos wasted no time swarming the "Pitbull" with a variety of ground strikes, elbows, and submission attempts. By the time Round 2 ended, Alves was busted open, bloodied, and suffered, in what MMA Mania calls, a severely damage d"Rich Franklin-esque" nose.

The official fight physician stepped in to check on Alves' condition. The doctor called a stop to the fight after the second round, awarding the TKO - Doctor Stoppage win to Condit in Goiania, Brazil.

The Albaquerque native left the Octagon with a 30-8 win-loss record. The victory also marked his 10^th in the UFC/WEC due to stoppage, moving him to second place overall in the division's list behind only former champion and hall of famer Matt Hughes.

Condit was the former UFC Interim Welterweight Champion, but lost the unifying title bout at UFC 154 to then division king Georges St-Pierre. Even with the difficult unanimous decision loss, he was still considered a win or two away from contending for the title again.

In an in-depth feature with Yahoo Sports!, Condit spoke about the difficulty of watching the title switch hands and the whole division move on without him. However, the past 14 months also gave him the opportunity to improve his MMA fundamentals and to watch the sport purely as a spectator.

Now, the man called "The Natural Born Killer" is a spectator no more. He is back with his usual gnarly scowl, and prepared to make another run at the title.

TagsUFC, UFC Fight Night 67, Carlos Condit, Thiago Alves, Georges St-Pierre, Welterweight, Matt Hughes, Rich Franklin, Broken Nose, TKO, Doctor Stoppage