The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday touched down in the “City of Brother Love” with UFC on ESPN 2, and after a slow start on the preliminaries -- where six of seven bouts went to the judges -- the main card nearly maxed out the violence meter. From Eleventh Hour come-from-behind finishes from Paul Craig and Josh Emmett to Jack Hermansson’s sub-minute guillotine submission of former two-division World Series of Fighting champion David Branch, I was reaching for the valium well before Justin Gaethje and Edson Barbosa made their respective walks to the cage for the main event.
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