David Branch has been around the sport of mixed martial arts long enough to know when a chain reaction of events is about to kick off.
The former two-division World Series of Fighting champion has competed professionally since 2007, so when one of his students walked into his Bronx gym a couple weeks ago and told him that Luke Rockhold had to drop out of his UFC 230 bout with Chris Weidman due to an injury, he had a gut feeling the ripple effect was probably going to cause a change to his scheduled fight with Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza.