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#3 Anthony Johnson vs. Kevin Burns, TUF 8 Finale

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Every modern-day UFC fan knows all about the power of Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson – he tore a path of destruction through the Light-Heavyweight division from 2014 to 2017, knocking out the likes of Ryan Bader, Glover Teixeira and Alexander Gustafsson along the way. However, perhaps his best UFC knockout actually came back in 2008 as a Welterweight.

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Johnson was matched with Kevin Burns at the TUF 8 Finale in a rematch of an earlier – and controversial – fight. Burns had inadvertently poked Johnson in the eye, rendering him unable to continue, but the referee had ruled the fight a TKO in favour of Burns. And so Johnson was gunning for revenge.

He took it in the most violent way possible – with a vicious left head kick in the third round of a close fight. Burns was unconscious literally the second that the kick landed, but Johnson added a hammer fist as he hit the deck for good measure. Either way, the rivalry was ended in devastating fashion and Johnson had secured a knockout for the ages.

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