If Germaine de Randamie listened to everybody else, she might have been fighting Holly Holm in a ring and not an Octagon. And it likely would have been just as intriguing as the clash between the two striking specialists that will take place in the main event of UFC 208 this Saturday in Brooklyn.
But timing is everything, and when de Randamie was wrecking opponents in kickboxing to the tune of a 46-0 (30 KOs) record and Holm was doing the same in boxing en route to three divisional titles, it just wasn’t in the stars for the two to fight.