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UFC 191 Fight of the Night Highlight: Lineker and Rivera’s violent short war

RT ICYMI: John Lineker and Francisco Rivera did this last night: http://t.co/E58e428aJ2 #UFC

— MMAThought (@MMAThought) September 6, 2015

After missing weight four times during his 8-fight flyweight stint, John ‘Hands of Stone’ Lineker (26-7) was forced to head up to bantamweight (for the first time in his UFC career) where’d he’d meet Francisco Rivera (11-5) last night at UFC 191. Although their fight only last a full 128 seconds, they nearly beat out 15 full minutes of co-main-eventers Frank Mir and Andrei Arlovski when it came to combined strikes. The two men were rewarded handsomely with fight of the night bonus checks for their short war.