Filed under: Featured , News , UFC SAO PAULO – Credit UFC light heavyweight champion and commentator Daniel Cormier for bringing middleweight Derek Brunson out of his shell. Brunson (18-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC), the No. 10 fighter in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA middleweight rankings , admitted he didn’t have any post-fight callout planned after a first-round knockout of ex-champ Lyoto Machida (22-8 MMA, 14-8 UFC)at UFC Fight Night 119. But Cormier asked, so he thought quick. “It just kind of came to me at the last minute,” Brunson said after he called out ex-champ Luke Rockhold (16-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) in the wake of his FS1-televised headliner at Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo. The reasons for the matchup aren’t hard to name, either
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Derek Brunson believes Luke Rockhold puts him 1 fight from title shot – MMA Junkie