With two guys on the streaks that they are on, you don’t have to be an MMA Nostradamus to predict that the hell was going to go down: They gon’ bang, bro. What you may have no foreseen is Derek Brunson running toward Robert Whittaker like he was trying to catch butterflies in a meadow only they were hard ass motherfucking punches to his dome piece.
If you can remember back, it looks a lot like Stipe Miocic’s win over Fabricio Werdum. Brunson straight up wanted to come out with his fifth knockout in a row and blast his way to a title shot but unfortunately it didn’t happen.
High. Level. MMA.#UFCMelbourne pic.twitter.com/QvdG4tIyYw
— Jonathan Snowden (@JESnowden) November 27, 2016
Whittaker tags Brunson on the chase!!!! #UFCMelbourne https://t.co/o8Bt6eJckW
— UFC (@ufc) November 27, 2016
It was a blistering and violent couple of minutes, but eventually Whittaker caught Brunson sprinting in and put him on newborn goat legs. It was all Whittaker from there as he unleashed a devastating combo to take out Brunson and move on deeper into the elite and chaotic Middleweight division.
Check out the last ~20 hit combo that ended it all.
Whittaker defeats Brunson via TKO pic.twitter.com/aWwiC53ZKM
— UFC Insiders (@UFCInsiders) November 27, 2016
