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Mousasi vanquishes Henderson with a 1st round TKO

Gegard Mousasi only needed 1:10 to dismantle a legend.

After a short feeling out period, the impossibly stoic Dutchman clipped Dan Henderson in the temple with a straight right hand, causing "Hendo" to stagger backwards and eventually take the Nestea plunge into the cage.

Mousasi landed a few follow-up punches, while Henderson immediately went for a single leg just as referee Leon Roberts dove in to stop the fight.

You decide: Early stoppage or not?

Despite tumbling into the fence violently, Henderson appeared to have all his faculties and was disappointed with Roberts' decision to stop the fight.

"He fought a good fight, I got hit with a jab or something and I couldn't see out of my left eye," Henderson told Joe Rogan in the post-fight interview, according to MMAFighting.com's Dave Doyle. "So he started pointing at it, he clipped me a little bit, but I was aware the whole time."

With five losses in his last six fights, fighters, the media and fans alike are practically begging the 44-year-old former two-division PRIDE champion to hang up his four-ounce gloves.

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