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Phil Rowe blasts out Ange Loosa's mouthpiece, pummels way to finish at UFC Atlanta
Phil Rowe blasts out Ange Loosa's mouthpiece, pummels way to finish at UFC Atlanta
For nearly 90 seconds, Ange Loosa's mouthpiece laid on the canvas, and in about that same time, Phil Rowe started to mount a comeback.
With less than a minute left in the fight, Rowe (11-5 MMA, 4-3 UFC) put Loosa (10-5 MMA, 2-3 UFC) away with a vicious TKO that easily could have been stopped sooner by referee Brent McKeehan, and finally was when Loosa collapsed to the canvas.
Rowe's finish came with 57 seconds left in the fight and was in the wake of momentum shifts and more than 6 minutes of control time for Loosa, who was nearly a 2-1 favorite in the fight. The live betting odds for Loosa reached as high as 21-1 in the third round before Rowe started to land.
"For a long time, I've been uncomfortable in here – but I can bang with the best of 'em," Rowe told Paul Felder in the cage after the win.
Check out Rowe's comeback finish below.
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