Here’s what most people saw: For three rounds, Kyle Bochniak gets punched and kneed and kicked from every possible angle, until he’s bloodied and bruised and clearly headed to a decision loss against rising featherweight prospect Zabit Magomedsharipov . Here’s what was going on inside Bochniak’s head at the time: This is the best night of my life. It started backstage at UFC 223 in Brooklyn, N.Y. As he warmed up in a Barclays Center locker room, Bochniak felt unusually calm – like, maybe a little too calm. He was walking around and yawning, waiting for nerves that never came. And he knew he was supposed to be nervous
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