Trying to knock Bryan Barberena out is kind of like trying to chop down a tree with a golf club \u2014 it’s possible, but it’s absurdly difficult. Vicente Luque learned this the hard way when he met Barberena at UFC on ESPN 1 last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the course of two and half rounds, Luque bombarded his sturdy foe with the kind of skull-rattling strikes that would have left many other fighters snoozing. But Barberena just kept coming \u2014 and firing back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, of course, Luque managed to stop his foe, ending the fight with a crushing knee in the third round. But it certainly wasn’t easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n