It's kind of crazy to me that a guy I might not even have in the top 5 at MW is now the champion. I'm very curious to see what the odds are for his first defense because I would probably have him as an underdog against all of the big contenders (Jacre, Weidman, Romero, and even Rockhold).
Also I think it's funny that in one night Bobby Green gets KOed while taunting Poirier to "Bring it" and Rockhold shows no effect from Bisping's early shots so he goes in hands down and gets blasted.
Also I still can't get over that comeback by Hendo.
Oh and I know that there's some beef with Zuffa and Ariel Helwani, but escorting him out of the arena and banning him for life right before the main event started because he broke the incredibly predictable Lesnar news comes off as petty to me, especially when you take into account his firing from Fox for basically asking questions people wanted to know the answer to (which many also assume Zuffa was responsible for). I know they don't want their announcements spoiled or the hard questions asked but the man is doing his job and I feel the majority of fans who follow him do so because he does these things that have caused these issues for him.
Even if they have beef with him also handing lifetime bans to his photographer and video director whose only crimes were being at the event with Ariel just seems childish. It also sounds like either the UFC is muzzling people over this or MMAFighting has told it`s writers not to speak about this so they can attempt to repair their relationship with Zuffa, if we see MMAFighting release Ariel in the next few days I think it will be pretty clear what`s going on. Time will tell.
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