There could be worse feelings to have while competing in the Octagon, but if there are, Charlie Brenneman doesn’t know about them.
What he does know is that in the midst of his 2011 fight with UFC 210 headliner Anthony Johnson, he got rocked by “Rumble” but made it to his feet. His legs were somewhere else, though, so he needed a couple seconds to steady himself. Johnson, who faces Daniel Cormier on Apr. 8 in Buffalo, wasn’t interested in such a plan.
"It’s like sprinting into a brick wall and saying, ‘I can’t stop’ and boom, you hit the wall.