Call it the basic cable calm before the pay-per-view storm.
A week ahead of a trip to Houston for UFC 266, the mixed martial arts conglomerate was in the lower-profile Fight Night business with a 10-bout show from its Apex facility in Las Vegas.
But that doesn't mean the fighters were any less combative.
Ranked middleweights Uriah Hall (No. 8) and Sean Strickland (No. 11) were on the marquee for the main event, getting together in a scheduled five-rounder with a chance to crash the upper echelon at 185 pounds.
Hall arrived on a four-fight win streak that included defeats of former champions Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman, while Strickland had four straight wins of his own dating back to his last loss in May 2018.