LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If it had happened in a movie, the details surrounding the finish would've been so far-fetched no one would believe it.After a layoff of nearly one year to the day, Brian Bowles returned to work Thursday night for a rematch that even he found to be a bit strange when offered to him. After all, his first fight with Damacio Page , some two and a half years prior, had ended with guillotine submission win for Bowles at 3:30 of the first round.What more did Bowles need to prove against Page? That he could submit him with a guillotine again? Done. But with the same end time in the first? No. Too crazy to be believable. Except that's what Bowles did at UFC on Versus 3 . Not a bad way to make a UFC debut."When I heard (the time) at the end I thought, 'Man, that sounds familiar,' " Bowles said after the win. "It's a little ironic. I didn't really catch on until in the back, everyone was telling me it was the same exact time, same submission, same everything – a little weird."Page started like his shorts were on fire, coming right after Bowles, whose last fight saw him break his hand in a title fight against Dominick Cruz, losing his WEC bantamweight belt when he couldn't start the third round with the injury.Once Bowles survived the initial attack and had the guillotine locked in, it became evident quickly that Page was not likely to tap voluntarily – not twice to the same guy. On Tuesday after a workout, Page told MMA Fighting he could learn plenty from his first loss to Bowles: "I look at it and say, 'Don't get caught in a guillotine choke. Stay out of his front headlock, have fun and just keep on moving.' " When he refused to tap, Page needed the referee to do it for him, pulling Bowles off and giving Page his second loss in a row. His last three losses overall have all come by guillotine.Bowles said Page's aggressive start didn't take him by surprise and said it also didn't bother him, despite being out of the cage for a full year."I'm not sure what his plan was, but that's the way he always opens up," Bowles said. "He always opens up real aggressive, real emotional, banging real hard. I had really worked on my footwork, trying to circle off of that because I knew that's what he did – and what I worked on worked for me."Bowles had been accustomed to bonus awards before losing his bantamweight title to Cruz – he won three straight while in the WEC. But those were $10,000 checks. On Thursday, his bonus was more than all three of those put together: $40,000 for Submission of the Night.But it seems like Bowles would trade that check in if he had to – he's glad to be back to work more than anything else."It felt great to be back," Bowles said. "I've been looking forward to this day for a long time, especially to get out here with the UFC and just to be back, be healthy, be out there fighting."