Saturday’s UFC Vegas 5 event is in the books, and now that the dust has settled in “The Fight Capital of the World,” it’s time to go to the scorecard to see who the big winners were at the Apex.
There’s probably nothing more intoxicating in combat sports than the young, unbeaten phenom. But equally enthralling is the grizzled veteran who steps up and puts a “1” in that phenom’s loss column when no one expects him to. And while I wouldn’t exactly call Derek Brunson “grizzled,” he is a veteran of the highest order, and he showed all the tricks that come along with that experience when he handed Edmen Shahbazyan his first pro loss on Saturday.