Ordinarily a slow starter, Donald Cerrone needed less than three minutes to submit Alex Oliveira in Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 83 headliner at Pittsburgh’s CONSOL Energy Center. “Cowboy” Cerrone (29-7 MMA, 16-4 UFC) finished the fight via first-round triangle choke in his UFC welterweight debut against fellow “Cowboy” Oliveira (13-3-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) in the FOX Sports 1-televised headliner. Registering a place in the win column usually means Cerrone also put his name in the UFC record books.
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