Two-rounds-to-none deficits are not easily swept aside in the Ultimate Fighting Championship—except for Carlos Condit.
The former World Extreme Cagefighting titleholder brutalized Rory MacDonald with a poisonous ground-and-pound blend of elbows, hammerfists and punches ahead of a dramatic technical knockout in the third round of their UFC 115 welterweight showcase on June 12, 2010 at GM Place. Largely overshadowed by the Chuck Liddell-Rich Franklin main event, Condit completed an improbable rally and shut the door 4:53 into Round 3.
MacDonald, just 20 years of age at the time, pressured “The Natural Born Killer” for much of the first two rounds, as he worked effectively from the outside and from inside the clinch.