UFC on ESPN+22, which went down inside the Ginasio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil last Saturday, will probably fade out of our collective memory pretty quickly. The card produced a few fun finishes, sure, but not many of us were talking about it at the water cooler on Monday.
Jan Blachowicz’s split decision win over former middleweight contender Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, which topped the event, was frankly nap-inducing. The co-main event, which saw light heavyweights Paul Craig and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua duke it out, was fairly entertaining, but ended with a disappointing draw. Outside a few nice finishes from fighters like Charles Oliveira and James Krause, the rest of the action was pretty slow…
All-in-all, it just wasn’t that great a night of fights.