LAS VEGAS – Marcos Rogerio de Lima isn’t there yet, but at UFC Fight Night 197 , he took one step closer to his goal of top-five notoriety. One half of the card’s co-main event Saturday, de Lima (19-7-1 MMA, 8-5 UFC) steamrolled veteran heavyweight Ben Rothwell (39-14 MMA, 9-8 UFC) and won by 32-second TKO . In doing so, de Lima became only the second man to stop Rothwell with strikes in the UFC. Everything went according to plan. “I kind of looked over at (my coaches) and said, ‘Listen, I’m going to go all day, all into this guy. I’m going to be in all the way through.’ That’s what I did,” de Lima told MMA Junkie through an intepreter at a post-fight news conference Saturday
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