Thiago Santos can spend the next few days icing his elbows and rewarding them for their heavy lifting.
Santos planted his flag in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s light heavyweight division with gusto, as he forced a between-round stoppage against Eryk Anders in the UFC Fight Night 137 headliner on Saturday at Geraldo Jose de Almeida Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Having been mercilessly battered by close-range elbows, Anders never made it to his corner at the conclusion of Round 3. He collapsed twice en route, prompting referee Marc Goddard to intervene.