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Evangelista Santos isn’t returning to MMA after Michael Page’s flying knee fractured his skull

Evangelista Santos isn’t a household name for UFC fans, but he owns a respectable fight history as one of MMA’s premier action fighters.

Whether it was slugging it out with Mauricio Rua in 2003 before he became a Pride fan favorite, slugging it out with Dutch kickboxer, Melvin Manhoef, or — you guessed it —slugging it out with Nick Diaz, Santos has seen no shortage on bonebreaking, headcracking fisticuffs. And that’s probably why he’s finally calling it a career.

It’s been two years since Evangelista Santos’ fight with Michael Page.