10 years in the making: Shogun takes rematch against Nogueira

It wasn't the instant classic they delivered a decade ago, but Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira brought the violence for 15 minutes at UFC 190 on Saturday night.

After a brief feeling out process, Nogueira wobbled Shogun with a left hand, and smelling blood, started to unload with heavy combinations, but somehow Shogun survived the terrifying onslaught, and actually fired back with some heat of his own.

Likely uninterested in surviving another harrowing firefight, Shogun immediately took Nogueira down to open the middle frame, but wasn't able to generate any sort of offense, though he did batter "Little Nog" with some vicious, rib-roasting kicks once the fight moved back to the feet.

Shogun continued his assault on Nogueira's midsection in the third stanza, battering his fellow Brazilian with big body kicks (and surviving a deep guillotine choke), earning a hard-fought unanimous decision in a rematch that was about eight years past its expiry date.