LAS VEGAS – As with all reshaped cards, UFC Fight Night 82 is odd on a number of levels. For starters, with the heavyweight title fight between Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum being scotched due to injuries, it’s no longer the pay-per-view it was intended to be.
Then there’s the matchmaking. Roy Nelson, who has lost back-to-back fights and five out of six overall, is fighting Jared Rosholt, who’s won three in a row, and five out of six in the UFC. Such a collision of opposite tending trajectories is unusual.