Upstart mixed martial arts promotion the World Series of Fighting held just their second event ever at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday night.

This event showed that company President Ray Sefo, a K-1 kickboxing legend, has a long way to go before he can hang with the UFC or event Bellator.

However, the show was not without its high points and a few fighters may have proven they are ready to go and do bigger and better things.

Check out the biggest winners and losers from “The Garden State” this past weekend.

BIGGEST WINNER

Anthony Johnson: Many fans and analysts found it laughable that “Rumble,” a former UFC welterweight, was fighting Andrei Arlovski at heavyweight at this event.

While he ran out of gas by the third frame, the "Blackzilian" stand out did more than enough to outlast the ex-UFC heavyweight champ.

Since embarrassingly missing weight in his middleweight debut against Vitor Belfort at UFC 142 last January, Johnson has quietly rallied back to win five in a row. A trip back to the Octagon may not be far off for him now.

WINNER

Josh Burkman: The eccentric journeyman fighter was a massive underdog against Aaron Simpson, which made his Mortal Kombat-esque finishing combination that much more impressive.

Burkman has now won four in a row, as well as seven of his past eight fights, and deserves to fight Jon Fitch for WSOF welterweight gold in June.  This is a rematch from April 2006 though, where Fitch picked up a rarely-seen submission win.

WINNER

Marlon Moraes: While there was some luck involved, there is no denying that Moraes showcased some serious skill in his knockout win over former Bellator champ Tyson Nam.

That’s four consecutive wins for the Brazilian striker, who has been shoring up his ground game with the likes of Frankie Edgar and Ricardo Almeida. Moraes has already beaten the two best guys WSOF has to offer at 135-pounds in Nam and Miguel Torres.

WINNER

Dave Branch: The Renzo Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt did whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted against former pound-for-pound great Paulo Filho.

While it wasn’t always pretty, the win is a huge resume builder for the 31-year-old grappler. At worst, Branch deserves to fight a rising prospect at WSOF 3 in June.

BIGGEST LOSER

Paulo Filho: Let’s be honest: there were at least a few putrid performances Saturday night, with a number of fighters looking washed up or simply not good enough to be fighting professional MMA.

With that in mind, no one looked nearly as awful inside the cage as Filho, a former WEC middleweight champ.

Not since his November of 2008 rematch with Chael Sonnen did the Brazilian look so unmotivated and uncaring, being completely content to get beat up on his back for the better part of 15 minutes. Filho desperately needs to stay retired after a performance like that.

LOSER(S)

Todd Harris and Bas Rutten: I’m usually one of the last people to call out a color commentary team since I work in front of the camera myself … but Harris and Rutten were absolutely horrible at WSOF 2.

Rutten forgot that Justin Gaethje was a lightweight (or that Jon Fitch was a welterweight) and refused to even consider heavyweight might not be the best weight class for Anthony Johnson. Harris, well, he just really didn’t provide any real insight all night long.

A really unfortunate set of circumstances since there were some great fights on the card.

LOSER

Andrei Arlovski: Let’s give “The Pit Bull” credit where credit is due: he withstood Anthony Johnson’s power for three rounds, which is solid in itself.

However, the fact he went for 10 extra minutes after suffering a broken jaw at the end of the first is nearly unfathomable. Still, the loss is a real heartbreaker, as Arlovski was on a nice 4-0-1 run in his past five fights.

LOSER

Tyson Nam: After a huge public dispute with Bellator, Tyson Nam really could have used an impressive win in his WSOF debut.

Instead, he was outmatched by a superior striker and couldn’t even last three minutes with Marlon Moraes.

The only positive out of this fight for Nam is that it made it blatantly obvious he is pretty small at 135-pounds, so a drop to flyweight may not be a terrible idea.