The strange beauty and brutality that is MMA is centered around it being a game of inches and unpredictability, and that there are consequences of actions. But you never truly know what those consequences are without the perspective of looking back in time.
On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Frankie Edgar battled Brian Ortega for what was expected to be the next shot at injured featherweight champion Max Holloway. If you studied MMA, you could figure a lot of ways the fight could go. Edgar winning by decision being the faster, busier and more ringwise fighter had a good chance.