So… did anything interesting happen at the UFC 234 weigh-ins yesterday?
Mixed martial arts fans, on the whole, have an interest bordering on obsession with what’s going on in fighters’ heads, and how that inner world might affect their real-world performances. It’s built into the language we use in talking about fighters and their interactions. We note when someone “looked shook at the press conference,” we argue over whether Conor McGregor or Khabib Nurmagomedov seemed more “gotten to” and we look backwards in time to the moment that one fighter “broke” another or, rather more poetically, “took his soul.