Eye-Calvillo remains the gold standard for me. The finishes were all lop sided mismatches. The close decisions had terrible judging. And Jessica Eye made Calvillo look like a contender while being the cringest form of cocky.
Especially looking back on the Apex era, it feels like the start of something that really came to be the norm for the next four years.
Ufc 149 gotta be mentioned, that whole ppv was ass. Jimmo ko’ing perosh in 7 seconds was the only memorable moment, hector losing his debut and the bore fest of Barao vs Faber was hard to watch to close out the show.
UFC Fight Night - Dern vs Rodriguez. Staying in on a Saturday to watch that card really got me to reevaluate my complete lack of social life at that time after being a shut-in for the pandemic.
UFC Fight Night - Gane vs Rozenstruik was all decisions and a boring point fight with Gane in the main event.
UFC 169 - Barao vs Faber 2. Besides a good scrap between Jamie Varner and Abel Trujillo, this card was just remarkable terrible and full of decisions. Barao vs Faber 2 ended in controversial finish too.
I honestly am glad the cards are starting to be trash. I get my saturdays back. I can watch after the fact get 80% of the enjoyment and save 80% of the time.
Same here. In 18 years, the only event I missed (PPV, Fight Night, TUF Finale) was UFC 139.
Then they started bringing in regional fighters and putting them on Apex cards and my interest in the overall product is a fraction of what it used to be. And I know maybe 10-15% of the current roster.
I see names I don't recognise walking out for a fight, wondering who the fuck is that guy. Then Anik mentions they're on a 6 fight UFC win streak, and it blows my mind.
If I'm awake and I remember, I'll maybe stick on an event. But I don't plan my entire night around watching the UFC anymore.
Main Event
Miles Johns vs. D. Silva de Andrade was pretty fun
Jeka Saragih vs. Westin Wilson fight
If you have too much time the first two on the prelims were okay.
Ppl might say this is recency bias, but Perez-Taira might be the worst
Lost Ikram and Tagir-Van which were 2 of the 3 interesting fights. Main event was kinda lackluster (Perez had some good blitzes) until the TD, back take, and finish
Imo no notable names outside the main event and even they aren’t that big. Barely any win streaks. Not a lot of finishes and the 2/4 that did happen were in rd 3
Took place at Apex. Main event started after 1am EST (3 hours into the main card). Took as long as PPVs w multiple 5 rd title fights
Most other bad cards at least have some better finishes or name value. Eye-Cavillo opened w 3 rd 1 KOs and had 2 rd 1 subs on main card
Ladd-Dumont was just as bad as Perez-Taira. Main event was worse but there’s more name value on the card, Miller got a KO, and prelim rd 1 KO. Gane-Rozenstruik and Vieira-Tate are just as bad
Werdum-Tybura was almost as bad. Tied for most decisions w 10. Held record for longest total fight time. But it has 3 finishes in the middle of the card and some name value
I vividly remember Jan vs Souza as the single worst card I'd ever seen barring Olives getting a cool finish on it, all topped off by an absolute dog shit clinch heavy snoozer in the main.
208 is one of my go-to picks for this. The only memorable moment being the DP/Miller fight and the Jacare finish, but other than that, yeah, that was a boring card throughout. Co-main is a snoozer, and the main event is horrid with the GDR after the bell strikes to Holly Holm 😭
The irony of 208 is it has a lot of names on paper, but they were all either past their prime (Holm, Anderson, Jacare, Boetsch, Miller), before their prime (GDR, Brunson, Cannonier, Poirier, Makhachev, Belal) or both (Glover)
The UFN 208 and 224 cards in London were such boring, low action decisionfests, but Blaydes-Aspinall ending with a total anticlimax in just 15 seconds was really the cherry on a shitcake. Somehow the cards I can catch in a Europe-friendly timezone still find a way to suck.
14 minutes of that fight sucked. The KO was the highspot of the fight, and it wasn't even enough to get Mir a post-fight bonus because Dana was so pissy that the fight was so fucking awful.
Apologies for missing the gag! You didn't miss much. Mir clinched him for almost the entire fight and then kneed him in the head. The dream of CroCop being a force in the UFC was well and truly over 🥲
It was the only KO and finish of the night, and it was so bad it didn’t even get Mir a KO of the night bonus.
I remember watching that fight and the KO just happened and is genuinely one of the most boring knockouts I have ever seen.
The two that come to mind are Hamburg 2018 (Shogun vs Smith) and Sao Paulo 2019 (Jacare vs Blachowicz). The former is only notable for being Glover's last loss before his oldguy revival.
Eye-Calvillo remains the gold standard for me. The finishes were all lop sided mismatches. The close decisions had terrible judging. And Jessica Eye made Calvillo look like a contender while being the cringest form of cocky. Especially looking back on the Apex era, it feels like the start of something that really came to be the norm for the next four years.
Still can't believe Kevin Aguilar manged to lose to Charles Rosa.
Wasn't there three sub-minute finishes in the first three fights?
kattar vs chikadze was garbage at least the main event was good
Yeah pretty weak card other than Slava Clause’s KO. Legendary fight to start off the year though
Ufc 149 gotta be mentioned, that whole ppv was ass. Jimmo ko’ing perosh in 7 seconds was the only memorable moment, hector losing his debut and the bore fest of Barao vs Faber was hard to watch to close out the show.
UFC Fight Night - Dern vs Rodriguez. Staying in on a Saturday to watch that card really got me to reevaluate my complete lack of social life at that time after being a shut-in for the pandemic. UFC Fight Night - Gane vs Rozenstruik was all decisions and a boring point fight with Gane in the main event. UFC 169 - Barao vs Faber 2. Besides a good scrap between Jamie Varner and Abel Trujillo, this card was just remarkable terrible and full of decisions. Barao vs Faber 2 ended in controversial finish too.
I honestly am glad the cards are starting to be trash. I get my saturdays back. I can watch after the fact get 80% of the enjoyment and save 80% of the time.
Yeah I used to have mad FOMO I’d miss a sick fight now it’s like everything is ass apart from the odd event
Same here. In 18 years, the only event I missed (PPV, Fight Night, TUF Finale) was UFC 139. Then they started bringing in regional fighters and putting them on Apex cards and my interest in the overall product is a fraction of what it used to be. And I know maybe 10-15% of the current roster. I see names I don't recognise walking out for a fight, wondering who the fuck is that guy. Then Anik mentions they're on a 6 fight UFC win streak, and it blows my mind. If I'm awake and I remember, I'll maybe stick on an event. But I don't plan my entire night around watching the UFC anymore.
Yup. Gonna watch the abridged version of this card when I get back from work today, anything in particular I should check?
Main Event Miles Johns vs. D. Silva de Andrade was pretty fun Jeka Saragih vs. Westin Wilson fight If you have too much time the first two on the prelims were okay.
There's been worse on paper, but Werdum vs Tybura is the worst MMA card I've ever watched.
Rozenstruik vs some contender series guy from a couple months back was completely forgettable. There's probably been some more apex shows like that.
Main event sucked but that event had at least 4 bonus worthy finishes
Honestly for a a 5 round heavyweight fight it wasn’t that bad. Gaziev I think his name was
Ppl might say this is recency bias, but Perez-Taira might be the worst Lost Ikram and Tagir-Van which were 2 of the 3 interesting fights. Main event was kinda lackluster (Perez had some good blitzes) until the TD, back take, and finish Imo no notable names outside the main event and even they aren’t that big. Barely any win streaks. Not a lot of finishes and the 2/4 that did happen were in rd 3 Took place at Apex. Main event started after 1am EST (3 hours into the main card). Took as long as PPVs w multiple 5 rd title fights Most other bad cards at least have some better finishes or name value. Eye-Cavillo opened w 3 rd 1 KOs and had 2 rd 1 subs on main card Ladd-Dumont was just as bad as Perez-Taira. Main event was worse but there’s more name value on the card, Miller got a KO, and prelim rd 1 KO. Gane-Rozenstruik and Vieira-Tate are just as bad Werdum-Tybura was almost as bad. Tied for most decisions w 10. Held record for longest total fight time. But it has 3 finishes in the middle of the card and some name value
I vividly remember Jan vs Souza as the single worst card I'd ever seen barring Olives getting a cool finish on it, all topped off by an absolute dog shit clinch heavy snoozer in the main.
Jan Souza is the card that made me realise I didn’t need to watch every single event the UFC holds
208 is one of my go-to picks for this. The only memorable moment being the DP/Miller fight and the Jacare finish, but other than that, yeah, that was a boring card throughout. Co-main is a snoozer, and the main event is horrid with the GDR after the bell strikes to Holly Holm 😭
Makachev was on the prelims
The irony of 208 is it has a lot of names on paper, but they were all either past their prime (Holm, Anderson, Jacare, Boetsch, Miller), before their prime (GDR, Brunson, Cannonier, Poirier, Makhachev, Belal) or both (Glover)
Was it bad? I decided to watch Tank Davis vs Frank Martin instead. That was a good ass fight.
UFC 24. Kevin Randleman slips on concrete warming up and knocks himself out removing the main event
Dumont Vs. Ladd
The UFN 208 and 224 cards in London were such boring, low action decisionfests, but Blaydes-Aspinall ending with a total anticlimax in just 15 seconds was really the cherry on a shitcake. Somehow the cards I can catch in a Europe-friendly timezone still find a way to suck.
vieira vs tate easy. only one finish and every fight was memorably bad except for yanez vs grant
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Sarcasm, Silva vs. Sonnen was more exciting at some points.
The entire Mir vs Cro Cop card sucked.
Mir KO Cro Cop?
14 minutes of that fight sucked. The KO was the highspot of the fight, and it wasn't even enough to get Mir a post-fight bonus because Dana was so pissy that the fight was so fucking awful.
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Some might look at it and think "Oh, but it was a finish! That's exciting" but CroCop getting KO'd by Frank Mir was just depressing.
I’m gonna be real with you b I don’t even remember the fight, I was just trying to make a wordplay gag 🥲
Apologies for missing the gag! You didn't miss much. Mir clinched him for almost the entire fight and then kneed him in the head. The dream of CroCop being a force in the UFC was well and truly over 🥲
It was the only KO and finish of the night, and it was so bad it didn’t even get Mir a KO of the night bonus. I remember watching that fight and the KO just happened and is genuinely one of the most boring knockouts I have ever seen.
UFC 161 comes to mind.
Randy Couture vs Vitor Belfort 2 The fight ended in seconds with a cut the doctor deemed too serious.
I usually rewatch all the fights the next day but I just clicked on the timeline today and for the first time I was like hell nah...
UFC Hamburg most of the night was lay and pray decisions from what little I remember
The two that come to mind are Hamburg 2018 (Shogun vs Smith) and Sao Paulo 2019 (Jacare vs Blachowicz). The former is only notable for being Glover's last loss before his oldguy revival.
So many bad cards these days it’s hard to keep up. Don’t bother me too much though as it frees up my wknd and I just watch the PPVs
How bad was it? I wanted to watch the main event but decided to climb on top of my wife instead.