Okay, it's a bit much to draw any comparisons to a legend like Randy Couture, but it's not often that a fighter starts his MMA career at 33 and looks like a world beater 22 months later at 35. But just like Couture, who made the transition from wrestling to MMA fighter at age 33, that's where Aaron Simpson is right now. No Simpson wasn't facing a top 10 middleweight but he made Ed Herman look like a clown with zero pedigree. Herman, a runner-up on The Ultimate Fighter 3, was beaten pillar to pillar and in every facet of the game in the opening round. It appeared he may have tweaked his left knee. Even after having his corner check the knee, Herman came out for the second, went down quickly and couldn't continue. Simpson gets his second UFC win at 0:17 of the second round.

Herman, an Oregon-native, had the crowd support but it wasn't enough.

"I was doing well you guys," Simpson told the crowd and UFC announcer Joe Rogan. "I'm getting better. We had a war going. I wanted to go three rounds. Thanks for the booes."

Simpson also said he's open to whatever the UFC wants to do with him, but they'd better take his age into account:

"I'm going to fight them one at a time. It's whoever Joe Silva wants to give me. I'm a little older so my days are numbered in this sport."

Simpson (6-0, 2-0 UFC) looked great on the feet consistently landing big right hands out of three and four punch combinations. Anytime the fighters clinched, Herman was tossed to the ground like a lightweight. And once it hit the mat, Simpson's ground and pound was suffocating.

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