As recently as a week ago, UFC 213 shaped up as perhaps the first great MMA pay-per-view of 2017.
Now? Well, maybe not quite so much.
Saturday’s fight card from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas still looks perfectly fine, headlined by a women’s bantamweight title fight in a rematch between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko as well as Yoel Romero vs. Robert Whittaker for the interim middleweight championship.
But with just a handful of days left before we all plunk down $60 to watch on PPV, the ghost of Robbie Lawler’s welterweight slobber-knocker against Donald Cerrone still haunts our dreams.