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LAS VEGAS » Cain Velasquez knocked down Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva with a combination and finished him on the ground 1:21 into the first round Saturday, briskly defending his heavyweight title at UFC 160.
Former heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos also stopped Mark Hunt on a spinning kick to the head with 42 seconds left in the third round at the MGM Grand Garden, likely setting up a third fight between Dos Santos and Velasquez in the near future.
"I want the best fights against the best guys, and this just comes with it," Velasquez said, indicating the championship belt around his waist.
Earlier on the pay-per-view card, Brazilian light heavyweight Glover Teixeira needed only 2:38 to submit James Te Huna with a guillotine choke and Nova Scotia’s T.J. Grant earned a likely lightweight title shot with a dynamic first-round stoppage of Gray Maynard.
Kailua-Kona’s K.J. Noons opened the pay-per-view portion of the card with a brutal unanimous decision loss to Donald Cerrone.
Noons (11-7) lost his UFC debut after competing in StrikeForce his last seven fights. He was cut just above his right eye immediately after the fight started and was opened up again in the third by a series of elbows.
The judges scored the fight 30-27, 30-27, 30-26 in favor of Cerrone (20-5, 6-2 UFC).
Waianae’s Max Holloway lost a split decision to Dennis Bermudez in a preliminary bout.
Two judges scored the bout 29-28 in favor of Bermudez while a third gave Holloway the fight by the same score.
Holloway dropped to 7-2 overall and 3-2 in the UFC.
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