If there was a blemish on UFC 208, it was that Ronaldo Souza went ahead and performed to standard, finishing Tim Boetsch in the first round of his fight with a Kimura. Look, I like Jacare but he must not have gotten the memo. Brooklyn was awash in scorecards, to the point that the scorecards themselves became the grand adventure. The 10-8s were beginning to show up in force, but in loose directions. Dustin Poirier, who took out Jim Miller fairly handily in the lone truly entertaining bout, fought to a 28-28 draw on one judge’s scorecard. That would have seemed astonishing had Phillipe Nover not lost a fight in which he has one judge score in his favor, 30-27.
If UFC 208 had been slightly worse, it would have at least been historic
