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The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Sunday staged its first event on ESPN, while Bellator MMA offered up a weekend doubleheader at the Mohegan Sun Arena with Bellator 215 on Friday and Bellator 216 on Saturday in Uncasville, Connecticut. With those events came some good, some bad and some ugly.
While this was not the official debut of the UFC on ESPN, as advertised, it was a more than fitting event as an introduction to that unimaginable segment of the sports viewing public still unfamiliar with mixed martial arts.