If five years ago, someone told you that welterweights Jordan Mein and Erick Silva would square off in 2017, you probably would have assumed that the bout would be a main event or co-feature fight, not the opening match of the card.
And yet, the latter was precisely the position the two can’t-miss prospects found themselves in on Saturday. And one was in better position to make a statement than the other.
Mein controlled the opening match of UFC on FOX 26 in all aspects of the bout and made a statement with a much-needed victory at MTS Centre in Winnipeg.