Saturday’s UFC Sao Paulo event is in the books, and now that the dust has settled, it’s time to go to the scorecard to see who the big winners were at Ginásio do Ibirapuera.
1 – Derek Brunson
Before his win over Lyoto Machida, Derek Brunson told me his previous victory over Dan Kelly was the kind of win he needed to get back on track after consecutive losses to Robert Whittaker and Anderson Silva. I agreed at the time, but now I beg to differ, and it was his main event knockout of Machida that provided the win Brunson needed – not to get on track, but to prove that in the middleweight division, there are few fighters as dangerous as he is.