If you could forget everything about the context, and everything that happened in the seconds leading up to it, you could almost tell yourself that this was a pleasant moment for Rashad Evans . Something about the way his body eased to the mat, eyes closed and face slack after Glover Teixeira (25-4 MMA, 8-2 UFC) landed the final knockout blow in the first round of Saturday’s UFC on FOX 19 main event at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. As he fell, Evans (19-5-1 MMA, 14-5-1 UFC) resembled a man who had worked hard and was now very tired, lowering himself down for a well-earned rest. If you want to know the truth, it resembled a quiet death, the way the worst knockouts sometimes do
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