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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If it had happened in a movie, the details surrounding the finish would’ve been so far-fetched no one would believe it.
After a layoff of nearly one year to the day, Brian Bowles returned to work Thursday night for a rematch that even he found to be a bit strange when offered to him. After all, his first fight with Damacio Page, some two and a half years prior, had ended with guillotine submission win for Bowles at 3:30 of the first round.
What more did Bowles need to prove against Page? That he could submit him with a guillotine again? Done. But with the same end time in the first? No. Too crazy to be believable. Except that’s what Bowles did at UFC on Versus 3. Not a bad way to make a UFC debut.
“When I heard (the time) at the end I thought, ‘Man, that sounds familiar,’ ” Bowles said after the win. “It’s a little ironic. I didn’t really catch on until in the back, everyone was telling me it was the same exact time, same submission, same everything – a little weird.”