Ovince Saint Preux def. Mauricio Rua by TKO Round 1

Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua told Sporting News earlier this week that he had no plans to retire after losing three of his last four fights heading into tonight's UFC Fight Night 56 main event against Ovince St. Preux. Rua might reconsider that thought as he was viciously knocked out by St. Preux 0:34 into the first round. Both fighters exchanged leg kicks to open the fight. Rua went for an overhand right and missed. St. Preux slipped the overhand right and threw a left hook that dropped the Brazilian. St.Preux pounced on a fallen Rua with ground and pound punches and referee Mario Yamasaki gave Rua a chance to defend himself. Rua wasn't able to intelligently defend himself and Yamasaki stopped the fight.With the victory, St. Preux makes it 4-1 in the UFC and moves to 17-6. He puts his loss to Ryan Bader at UFC Fight Night 47 in Bangor, Maine behind him, and drops Rua to 22-10. The 32-year old Rua has now lost four of five fights overall in the UFC. Though St. Preux said he wouldn't engage in a brawl with Rua, he managed to put the Brazilian legend away with a well-timed counter left. It was the only finish on a main card dominated by distance fights. With the flyweight bout between Ian McCall and John Lineker cancelled, in the makeshift co-main event The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 winner Warlley Alves came out storming against Alan Jouban. Though he couldn't get the finish -- and though he faded down the stretch -- Alves did enough in the judge's eyes to defeat the Louisiana native away via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).With the Brazilian grounded, and cornered against the fence, St. Preux unloaded with a machine-gun flurry of punches until referee Mario Yamasaki stepped in to stop the main event contest.It only took 34 seconds.“I’m still going to be a big ‘Shogun’ fan, but it’s one of those things – in order to become a legend, you’ve got to beat a legend, so that’s what I did that tonight,” St. Preux said following the most impressive victory of his career. Saint Preux landed a perfect punch early in the first round and stopped Rua just 34 seconds to silence the crowd at Ginasio Municipal Tancredo Neves in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.