Unlike past evenings when the UFC and Bellator faced off, there were no superstars propping up big shows on Saturday night. This was just a case of two solid, if unspectacular cards that catered to the regular MMA audiences.
If you so desire, and if you have the means and the stamina, taking in both of these events will require two channels, two streaming services, a website, at least $25, and nearly eight hours of your time. At MMA Fighting, we’re always up for incredible feats of human endurance, so we kept a running diary of the night from the first punch of the prelims to the very bizarre main-event conclusion, and it went something like this…
5:30 p.