Keith Peterson the ref. Overeem throws first, and Rothwell to center. Overeem comes in with knee to the body, which glances Rothwell. Big one-off type shots early. Now they exchange, and Rothwell fires a couple of short punches into Overeem's grill. They collide like slabs and then bounce off one another. And again, and it looks like Rothwell might have clipped Overeem a little bit as he wobbles. Rothwell, thinking he has hurt him, drags him to fence but Overeem holds on. His offense here consisted of two points of attack: kicking at Rothwell's knees, and looking for hard knees to Ben's guts. He had varying degrees of success with this but "Big" Ben did all the real damage with hard uppercuts and one big overhand right that clipped Overeem right in the temple.Rothwell was fighting for the first time since UFC 164 last summer, after which he was suspended for elevated levels of testosterone. After recording his 20th career KO/TKO, Rothwell gave an impassioned interview in which he thanked his supporters and chided his detractors.Overeem shot in for a telegraphed takedown attempt and Rothwell answered with a huge uppercut that staggered Overeem. After Overeem fired off more kicks to the body, Overeem got dropped with a huge right hand to the temple. Rothwell pounced on Overeem and fired off the fight ending ground-and-pound.
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