The terrifying running-knee finish of Chris Weidman at Madison Square Garden earned the "Soldier of God" his eighth straight victory, a Performance of the Night bonus, and put him in position for the next shot at Michael Bisping's UFC middleweight title.
And according to Romero, the fight played out precisely to their game plan.
"That's exactly how we planned out the fight, how we thought the fight would go," Romero said on a recent edition of The MMA Hour. "From half the second round on, we knew we would finish. That was trained.