UFC Moscow was exactly the kind of card it looked set up to be. Which is to say, if a promotion is going to have clear platform tiers for events, then a Saturday morning card on Fight Pass should be the lowest quality event the UFC can put on. It wasn’t incredibly meaningful, it wasn’t incredibly thrilling, but it was fast and – for hardcore fans that will watch any fights whatever time they happen to occur – there were some fascinating takeaways.
Most notably, will the UFC actually consider Jan Blachowicz or Oleksiy Oliynyk anything close to title challengers?