At 37 years old, Derek Brunson is making a late-career run at UFC middleweight gold.
The North Carolina native earned his fifth consecutive triumph in the UFC Fight Night 191 headliner, submitting Darren Till with a rear-naked choke 2:13 into the third round of their middleweight encounter at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. It matches the longest win streak of Brunson’s promotional tenure — he also won five straight from August 2014 to September 2016 — and it puts him in striking distance of his first title shot in the Octagon.