If you watched the final seconds of the opening round of Chris Weidman’s UFC on FOX 25 main event against Kelvin Gastelum and thought “here we go again,” you weren’t alone.
The former UFC middleweight champion’s well-documented, three-fight losing streak had largely been a tale of “he was winning the fight until he wasn’t.”
Each loss brought a unique twist of the knife. There was the ill-advised, fight-changing spinning back kick in the title loss to Luke Rockhold. The poorly timed takedown that led to a knockout knee against Yoel Romero.