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Monday, March 24, 2014

At 43 years old, Dan Henderson needed to draw on all of his experience to deliver a stunning come-from-behind TKO of Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in Sunday night's UFC main event.

In UFC history, only one other fight has finished by TKO or KO with an older winner. Randy Couture, aged 44, defeated Gabriel Gonzaga by TKO at UFC 74.

Couture has three entries on the following list of the top 10 oldest fighters to win a UFC fight by T/KO:

Oldest UFC Winners by KO or TKO *
# Date Event Winner Winner's Age Loser
1Aug 25, 2007UFC 74Randy Couture44 years, 75 daysG. Gonzaga
2Mar 23, 2014UFN 38Dan Henderson43 years, 211 daysM. Rua
3Aug 21, 2004UFC 49Randy Couture41 years, 71 daysV. Belfort
4Aug 3, 2013UFC 163Anthony Perosh40 years, 312 daysV. Magalhães
5Nov 10, 2012UFC on Fuel 6Cung Le40 years, 179 daysR. Franklin
6Jun 19, 2004UFC 48Ken Shamrock40 years, 139 daysK. Leopoldo
7Apr 30, 2011UFC 129Vladimir Matyushenko40 years, 126 daysJ. Brilz
8Jun 6, 2003UFC 43Randy Couture39 years, 359 daysC. Liddell
9Jan 19, 2012UFC on FX 1Jorge Rivera39 years, 335 daysE. Schafer
10Nov 13, 2010UFC 122Vladimir Matyushenko39 years, 323 daysA. Ferreira
* - As of March 24th, 2014

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