Mateusz Gamrot and Arman Tsarukyan took an ordinary-looking fight night card and gave it an extraordinary finish.
After back-to-back stellar events in packed arenas in Singapore and Austin, Texas, and one week ahead of the monster UFC 276 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the Ultimate Fighting Championship pulled into the small, quiet confines of the Apex for UFC on ESPN 38, with a main event featuring Tsarukyan and Gamrot, two outstanding lightweights whose skill and potential greatly outstrip their name value. What could easily have been a forgettable “letdown” card in between blockbusters instead provided a wealth of thrilling moments, many of them in the headliner, as “Gamer” and “Ahalkalakets” delivered five rounds of high-level wrestling, grappling and striking, conducted at a furious pace and featuring multiple swings in momentum.