It was bound to happen sooner or later. Saturday night, in the UFC’s seventh modern-era card held in Brazil, everything came together for the home team, and a little bit of history was made. Eight submissions occurred on the evening, setting a single-event UFC record for the Zuffa era.
Yep, it was pretty much a jiu-jitsu clinic, from Antonio Braga Neto’s brutal show-opening kneebar to the culminator between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Fabricio Werdum. Here are grades for every fighter on the main card.