Tonight’s UFC Fort Lauderdale event was headlined by a key middleweight bout featuring perennial contenders Ronaldo Souza and Jack Hermansson.

Ronaldo Souza was most previously seen inside the octagon at November’s UFC 230 event, where he scored a spectacular knockout victory over former champ Chris Weidman.

Having won four of his past six contests, “Jacare” claims he was promised a title opportunity if he proved victorious over Hermansson this evening.

As for “The Joker”, Jack Hermansson entered tonight’s UFC Fort Lauderdale main event on a three fight win streak, his latest being a submission win over former WSOF “champ champ” David Branch.

Tonight’s headliner between Souza and Hermansson resulted in an absolutely grueling five-round contest.

Hermansson was able to hurt Jacare early, but Souza was able to comeback strong in round three.

The middleweights would battle back and forth in rounds four and five with ‘The Joker’ seemingly getting off the better volume of strikes.

In the end, the judges in attendance ruled Jack Hermansson the winner by way of unanimous decision.

Check out how the pros reacted to the UFC Fort Lauderdale main event below.

I’m torn for this fight jacare is a beast but the joker is no joke

— Mike "Biggie" Rhodes (@TeamRocBiggie) April 28, 2019

https://twitter.com/btbshowtime/status/1122355908258910209?s=21

Jesus. Key takedown right there from the Joker. He should win at least 3-2. Awesome to see Jack earn his way to the top 5, especially on short notice, but also kinda gutted for Jacare.

— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) April 28, 2019

Hermansson left Sweden to go train in Oslo when he was a youngster. He took a job as a gym teacher even though he could hardly speak Norwegian. Not sure why, but I like this story. He’s a great guy.

— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 28, 2019

https://twitter.com/aliaquinta/status/1122353330955673600?s=21

Man I can’t remember the last time a main event didn’t deliver an awesome fight

— Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) April 28, 2019

And after fighting a few weeks ago too!! Hermansson putting himself right in the mix with this win tonight.

Feel for Souza. Last time he was going to get a title shot he fought Whittaker & lost. Always been so close to that elusive title shot but comes up short #UFCFtLauderdale https://t.co/VpInWqminH

— Megan Anderson (@MeganA_mma) April 28, 2019

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