Two of the UFC’s biggest, and most dangerous, strikers squared off Saturday with much at stake in the bout between light heavyweights Thiago Santos and Johnny Walker.
Walker entered the fight with 18 wins in his 23 bouts, 15 of those knockouts. He’d also had three bouts go to submission, two of which were wins. Santos had 18 of his 30 bouts end in knockouts and four end by submission, one of which was a win.
Between them in 53 bouts entering UFC Vegas 38 at Apex, they’d combined for 30 knockout victories and had been stopped themselves six times.