Many were surprised when the announcement came down late last week that Derek Brunson would face Anderson Silva in a late addition to UFC 208.
Brunson, for his part, was surprised as well when the call came in asking if he wanted the fight.
“I was expecting a little lesser name,” Brunson said on a recent edition of The MMA Hour. ”But a fight is a fight.”
Of course, it’s not that Brunson doesn’t consider himself worthy of a matchup with Silva. In fact, he’s thrilled to get the opportunity to meet the former UFC middleweight champion, who was the longest-reigning titleholder in UFC history.