If somebody had said on Friday that come fight night at UFC 234, Kelvin Gastelum would be holding a UFC belt before ever fighting Robert Whittaker, Donald Cerrone would be slugging beer out of an old cowboy boot, and Israel Adesanya — the belle of the ball — would be talking about himself as Rock Lee going against Anderson Silva’s Gaara, well, I’d have said take my freaking money.
What the hell was going on in Melbourne? Why did everything seem so upside down Down Under?