Klasszikus harc a nyolcadik UFC-n. A bíró később sajnálkozott a lassú reagálásért. A vesztes a saját lábán tudott távozni.Később betiltották az ejtett könyökütést. Talán nem a legkegyetlenebb kivégzés, de aki látta, az soha nem felejti el.

"In the lead-up to the fight, some of my friends told me that Tank Abbott was a racist skinhead who was involved with the KKK. Of course it wasn't true, but my friends said it so I would train harder... Going into the Herrera fight, I wasn't confident at all in my technical fighting abilities; however, I was confident that I wasn't going to lose to this guy. I swore up and down that I was not going to lose to a racist jerk. I didn't care what I needed to do because, in my mind, I was now fighting for all Black people."