Chris Weidman Hoping to Return From Injury By Summer Time

Chris Weidman spoke with MMAjunkie about the status of his thumb injury and more. Highlights are below:

On wanting to return from injury soon: “I’m hoping in the next six weeks my health will turn around and I can get a couple training sessions in, get confidence in it that I can use it and then get something booked. I would hope something in the early summer, but the injury I had is pretty serious. The surgery, it’s almost like doing the ACL on the hand. They restructured the ligament. They took ligaments from my wrist to create new ligaments in the base of my thumb. Hands, they take a little time to heal. It’s not the quickest body part to get a surgery on. It takes time.”

On a possible fight with Jacare Souza: “I thought ‘Jacare’ was the one I was going to be fighting, but the hand is taking longer than I wanted it to be. ‘Jacare’ would be great fight for No. 1 contendership. Now that I wasn’t able to take that fight in the time I wanted, I couldn’t commit to it. I don’t know what’s next. I really don’t know who I would be fighting. Obviously I want to get back to that title fight, and whoever I’ve got to fight to get there, I’m willing to do it.”