The Ultimate Fighting Championship was in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday for the first time in nearly two years, with the event headlined by a scrap between former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis and perennial welterweight contender Stephen Thompson.
While many people gave “Showtime” credit for moving up to 170 pounds to challenge “Wonderboy” at UFC Fight Night 148, few predicted his scoring an upset in his welterweight debut. Indeed, 20 of Sherdog’s 21 staff members picked against him, the conventional wisdom being that Thompson would be too big, too strong and too durable for the Milwaukee native.