Still unbroken: Jared Gordon’s harrowing road to UFC 211

I first spoke to Jared Gordon two years ago. It was the kind of encounter you don’t forget.He was a young featherweight prospect readying for a regional fight up in the northeast, and over the course of a few hours, he told me his story. At age 19, he got himself addicted to pain killers. By 21, he veered into heroin. By 22, he was incarcerated and reeling from a massive drug overdose, his second, which left him legally dead for two minutes. By 23, he was homeless, a shell of a person, pan