‘Jiu-jitsu doesn’t work’: Pros react to Cody Brundage’s history-making second UFC Austin slam knockout

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What is in the water down there in Austin?!

Just minutes after Drakkar Klose scored one of the wildest knockouts of 2023 with a slam knockout of Joe Solecki at UFC Austin, Cody Brundage repeated the favor, brutalizing Zachary Reese with a vicious slam to earn a first-round stoppage on Saturday’s undercard. There have now been 14 slam knockouts in UFC history, and somehow two of them happened in back-to-back fights at the same event.