Rashad Evans says he’s ‘medically cleared’ to fight, seeking March or April return

It was a difficult year for Rashad Evans in 2016, who was knocked out by Glover Teixeira in April and then denied a chance to redeem himself seven months later in November. Evans was slated to fight Tim Kennedy at UFC 205 at Madison Square Garden in his native home state of New York, but was unceremoniously pulled from the card just days beforehand under unclear circumstances.
The reason being whispered about at the time was that he didn’t clear a routine MRI, which prompted the New York S