-There’s a lot to miss about 2019, particularly in this shitty Covid-19 period, but the rise of Colby Covington up the UFC ranks is not one of them. This show was his first main event, as Donald Trump’s favourite fighter took on former champ Robbie Lawler in a fight everyone was hoping...

-This show wasn’t getting much fanfare at all despite being a pretty solid card – I mean you can’t sneeze at two top five FWs facing in the main event and a bunch of other top fighters (Poirier, Pena, Guida, Chiesa, Iaquinta and Masvidal) up and down the card, but to be fair I guess when...

-This was the first UFC show in Abu Dhabi since the semi-infamous UFC 112 in April 2010 – you remember, Anderson Silva’s dancing against Demian Maia. That card had two title matches plus a Hughes vs. Gracie clash; this one wasn’t nearly as stacked, being a Fight Pass exclusive card....

-The second UFC PPV in a row to have its main event changed by injury, this one also saw somewhat of an upgrade in terms of interest, as the initial challenger to Benson Henderson’s Lightweight crown – TJ Grant – withdrew citing a concussion and was replaced by the last man to defeat...

-This was perhaps the strangest card of 2012 on paper, as when they first announced the main event I was quite excited, but then they decided for some reason to put a couple of fights on the televised card (Stout/Fisher and Ebersole/Waldburger) that didn’t really have much relevance while a...