Sometimes, one man's injury leads to another man's opportunity and such will be the case when Canadian welterweight Chris Clements steps into the octagon to face Nordine Taleb this Saturday at UFC 186 at Bell Centre in Montreal.

The unfortunate injury is a broken foot suffered by Taleb's original opponent Claudio Silva and the opportunity is a chance for Clements to get back into the octagon and attempt to build on the first-round TKO victory he scored over Vik Grujic in November.

Though, the shortened camp has been both a blessing and a curse to the 39-year-old Canadian.

"It's a favour to my family and me for stress reasons," Clements told TSN.ca. "As far as cutting 37 pounds in four weeks, I'm not looking forward to that at all, it's pretty rough.  All in all I have to look at it as a good thing and not a bad thing."

The saved stress is due to the fact that Clements has been forced to wear many hats while also training for this bout.  With his wife working a full-time job as a nurse, Clements has been training while also picking up his two children, aged three and one, from day care daily and chasing them around until his wife finishes her shift.

One place the shorter time frame won't hurt Clements is going over his opponents tendencies as he prefers to train and fight his own style during a bout.

"When I get an opponent I look at him for one day," he said. "I don't concern myself with what they are good at and what they want to do, I just try to be myself and find a way to win.  I either knock people out or lose to a submission trying to knock them out."

Since his first professional MMA fight, Clements has racked up an impressive string of knock out victories, with only one of his 12 career triumphs not ending that way.  While you might think that would make him easy to scout, even Clements isn't exactly sure what he's going to do next until it's already happening.

"I'm freelance, kind of like an artist in there I just create it as I go and that's why people have a hard time dealing with me," he said. "They don't know what I'm going to do, because I don't know what I'm going to do until I do it.  I just find a way to hit you, I don't think there is a right or a wrong way to do something, if I hit you and it hurt then I did it right."

Of all of his fights, the least useful to scout might also be the most shocking and entertaining to watch. In a May 2006 fight that also took place in Montreal, Clements scored one of the fastest knockouts in MMA history when he stopped Lautaro Tucas three seconds into their bout with one punch.

"I remember that clearly, he just ran at me and I was nervous because it was a big deal for me to fight in TKO," he said. "It was my first fight there, I'm nervous as all can be, it's my first fight at 170. They said go and he just ran at me.  His face just popped out like a wack-a-mole and I just hit it and that was it."

The veteran Canadian will be hoping to paint himself another masterpiece at UFC 186.