No disrespect to UFC lightweight champion Frankie “The Answer” Edgar and his UFC 136 win by TKO, but if this was not the real Knockout of the Night for Saturday, October 8, 2011, then I don’t know what is.
Yes, the UFC lightweight champion avenged an early-UFC-career loss to Gray “The Bully” Maynard, but the answer (no pun intended) for the question of which fight was last night’s true knockout victory of the night does not come from the UFC.
Instead, it comes from one of the finishers on the Bellator Fighting Championships 53 card—specifically an underrated Brazilian prospect named Douglas Lima.
They don’t call Lima “The Phenom” because Bellator is trying to scoop up Vitor Belfort; they call Lima “The Phenom” because of the sensationally-ridiculous manner in which he puts people away.
Don’t believe it?
Watch this video of Lima’s finish of “The Cleveland Assassin” Chris Lozano, and try and tell me otherwise.
Just another note: he faces Ben Saunders in the Bellator welterweight finals this season…so tell me, are we still supposed to be writing Saunders off as the winner of the tourney, or can we give some credit where it’s due to a clear welterweight prospect that the world’s largest MMA organization would be foolish to overlook?
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