So much for Valentine's Day lovefests.
The UFC's second pay-per-view of 2021 culminated in a battle of two formerly close friends and training partners vying for welterweight gold in the promotion's initial title fight of the year.
The match between Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns finally occurred after multiple delays and was placed atop a 10-bout card that was broadcast by ESPN+ from the UFC Apex Facility in Las Vegas on Saturday.
The show was trimmed from 11 fights not long before the first punches were thrown in the 7 p.m. hour, thanks to a non-COVID illness that kept flyweight Gillian Robertson from meeting Miranda Maverick.