Some nights just feeling like a changing of the guard.
Not just any old championship switch, mind you. We’ve had eight of those in the UFC alone in the past 13 months, and that’s not even bothering to count the interim belts which have been handed out like Halloween candies.
No, sometimes you know when you’ve seen a generational passing of the torch, the equivalent of the scene in the nature show where the young buck wins the territorial battle with the alpha male and assumes control of the herd.
That’s what it felt like as we watched UFC 212 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night, as 25-year-old Max Holloway fearlessly walked into Jose Aldo’s domain and claimed his throne.