It’s never easy to get past a loss much less one that should have been a win.
That’s exactly how Derek Brunson felt after dropping a very close decision to former middleweight champion Anderson Silva at UFC 208 in a fight where he absolutely believed he should have walked out with a victory.
There’s now easy remedy to cure the sting of a bad defeat, but in Brunson’s case he wasn’t upset that he got hit with a punch and rattled or caught with a submission and finished. Instead, Brunson just couldn’t understand how the three judges sitting cage side that night in Brooklyn watched 15 minutes of fighting and somehow decided to give Silva the win.