Chris Leben The hours and days that followed Chris Leben ’s TKO victory over Aaron Simpson in Las Vegas in June 2010 were pretty typical, the way he remembers it. First, he celebrated the way he usually did after a win, which included “the one big party night in Vegas,” as Leben told MMAjunkie. “Then I went home, me and my wife ordered a large pizza, ate the whole thing, and then (UFC matchmaker) Joe Silva was calling me in the morning,” Leben (22-12 MMA, 12-10 UFC) said. What Silva asked him to do was something that no fighter in the modern era of the UFC had done – fight two UFC bouts in two weeks. It’s the same feat that Donald Cerrone (25-6 MMA, 13-3 UFC) will attempt to repeat on Sunday, when he faces former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson (21-4 MMA 9-2 UFC) in UFC Fight Night 59’s FOX Sports 1-televised co-headliner just 15 days after his unanimous-decision victory over Myles Jury at UFC 182 on Jan. 3.
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Two UFC bouts in two weeks? Maybe Cerrone should ask someone who’s done it – MMA Junkie