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From the Inside: Josh Samman shares his UFC 181 experience

In anticipation of his next bout on July 12th, UFC Middleweight Josh Samman walks us through his personal experience of what many deemed KO of the year at UFC 181 last December.

612 days.

That’s how long it’d been since I had last seen the inside of the Octagon. I'm half asleep, wondering to myself whether I'm in the exact locker room, or a next door replica. The familiarity helps, and comforts me knowing that the last time I’d made that walk to the cage in the Mandalay Bay Arena I had returned victorious.

I had been in plenty of cages since the one on April 13th, 2013, but none so consequential.