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- Edson Barboza produced a memorable finish Saturday at UFC 262.
- After a high-octane battle, Barboza smacked Shane Burgos with a one-two sequence in the third round.
- See Burgos go through a delayed reaction to the knockout blows right here.
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UFC veteran Edson Barboza scored a bizarre knockout when his opponent went down six seconds after getting hit.
Barboza beat Shane Burgos in the third round of a high-octane featherweight fight, closing the show with a punch to the head from range.
"I came prepared for war, and it was a war," Barboza said in a post-fight statement sent to Insider. "Every time I step in the octagon, everybody expects a war. I was ready for it."
More than 16,000 fans watched at the Toyota Center in Houston, as the fighters combined to throw 371 strikes in the entire fight, with Barboza landing more in rounds one and three.
In the third and final round, Barboza clattered Burgos with a one-two punch combination.
Though his head rocked back with each stinging strike, Burgos reset his feet and shimmied forward as if he had shaken off the damage and was ready to throw back.
But that's when things got weird. He took multiple steps back in retreat, crashed into the fence, and was clearly done for the night.
Watch the finish right here (skip to the 5:25 mark):
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Speaking afterwards, Barboza said: "I said this would be one of the best performances in my career and it was, if not the best - 145-pounds is my division, it's where I'm comfortable at."
The strange way the fight ended was "kind of crazy," he added.
"I honestly didn't really understand what happened at the time. After the fight was over, I was still moving forward and saw that he was dropping. I saw he couldn't defend himself, but I didn't understand what happened."
With victory, Barboza advanced his pro MMA record to 22 wins (13 knockouts, one submission, and eight decisions) against nine losses.
"I just want to continue climbing the ranking," he said. "I beat two top 10 [guys] so I'm going up, and I'm getting closer to my goal to be the champion."