LAS VEGAS — Seconds after brutally knocking him out and sending him to an ignominious end to his UFC career, Uriah Hall knelt on all fours in front of Anderson Silva and apologized.
“I’m sorry,” Hall said after stopping Silva with strikes at 1:24 of the fourth round Saturday at Apex.
Few fighters engender that type of respect, where their opponent apologizes for beating them, but Silva is no ordinary fighter. He came to the UFC in 2006 and promptly reeled off 16 consecutive victories, many of them in spectacular fashion, and was acclaimed at the time as one of the greatest mixed martial artists who ever lived.