AUSTIN, Texas – Cody Brundage can’t tell a lie: He saw Drakkar Klose’s slam knockout just before he walked out for his own fight.
And yeah, he liked it. And yeah, it might have put an idea in his head.
A few minutes later at UFC on ESPN 52, Brundage (10-5 MMA, 4-4 UFC) tried to slam his way loose from Zach Reese (6-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), bounced the back of the UFC newcomer’s head off the canvas, and a couple punches later he had a finish for the history books.
Brundage’s slam might not have been as visually impressive as the one Klose hit on Joe Solecki at Moody Center in Austin, Texas – in that KO, Solecki turned his head to the side while Klose was trying to slam out of trouble, and he hit the canvas temple first and was out cold. That was just the 13th KO slam in the UFC’s 30-year history, so the fact Brundage got the 14th just one fight later and not a few years later, like the average might suggest, was impressive enough in its own right.
