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Mike Bohn

Thiago Santos has no excuses for ‘another hard and painful defeat’ at UFC Fight Night 203

Thiago Santos is struggling to find answers for his loss to Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC Fight Night 203 main event.

Santos (22-10 MMA, 14-9 UFC) suffered a unanimous decision loss to Ankalaev (17-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) in Saturday’s light heavyweight headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It was his fourth defeat in his past five fights, and has the 38-year-old pondering what comes next.

Although Santos’ run of defeats came exclusively to the highest level of opponents in former champ Jon Jones, current champ Glover Teixeira and a pair of top contenders in Aleksandar Rakic and Ankalaev, the Brazilian expects better results out of himself.

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