OTTAWA, Ontario – UFC middleweight Derek Brunson is approaching his fight with Elias Theodorou with a mantra: don’t rush. “I can look back on some of my fights, (and) even the good ones where I got the knockout, I thought, ‘Ah, I probably should have toned it down a little bit,’” Brunson told reporters at a media day for his co-feature bout at UFC on ESPN+ 9 at Canadian Tire Centre The last time Brunson rushed, he met a knee to the head that robbed him of the chance to upset one of the sport’s hottest prospects. A grudge match with Israel Adesanya at UFC 230 wasn’t an opportunity to settle a score, but one to steal the thunder of the striking phenom. And it went south because, as he said, he got greedy. “Sometimes, I get in the way of my own self,” he said. “Like, I know by far I’m a better grappler than him
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