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UFC Japan Post-fight Patterns - Luck in MMA

Phil Mackenzie scrambles to put out an even later PFP than the last one and talks about how flukes aren't a big thing, because luck plays way more of a role in the sport than we like to think.

Was Uriah Hall's spin kick in the co-main event of UFC Japan lucky, or even the dreaded "fluke"?

Luck is a pejorative in MMA, and in sport in general. We tend to tie it to the word "deserve", and it often ends up loaded with disrespect. It's reinforced by the way that luck is often used as the crutch of the bitter: fighters claiming that, although they lost, they'd beat their opponent 9/10 times.