After starting his pro MMA career with a 9-0 record that included nine finishes, eight in the first round, Charles Rosa was confident that when he got the call to the UFC for an October 2014 bout with Dennis Siver, he was going to keep on rolling.
It didn’t matter that he was fighting a top ten contender on five days’ notice in Stockholm, Sweden. Peabody, Massachusetts’ Rosa had that New England swagger and nothing he had seen in his previous nine fights forced him to alter his outlook.
“I thought I was going straight to the world championship,” Rosa said.