There’s a good chance that Julio Arce had done enough to earn a decision win against Julian Erosa.
But Arce wasn’t interested in leaving anything to chance.
After two rounds of back-and-forth action in the opening preliminary bout of UFC Rochester on Saturday, Arce connected with clean head kick that put a swift end to the featherweight encounter.
Arce and Erosa had been trading shots on the feet for over 10 minutes by that point, but it was Arce who unloaded with a head kick in the middle of an exchange that Erosa did not see coming.