-Despite a couple of odd fights this was largely being seen as the UFC’s first “loaded” PPV card of 2017, as the main event between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson had been building for a long time, and Weidman/Mousasi as a co-main sounded pretty cool. Being a UFC show in 2017 there...

-This was the UFC’s first show in Belfast since June 2007’s UFC 72, a pretty weak card headlined by Rich Franklin vs. Yushin Okami, and if I’m being frank this card wasn’t any better, although that’s a little more understandable as it was a Fight Pass offering. Original main event...

-This was the first UFC PPV in the UK since UFC 138 in 2011 (although they’d done a handful of free TV shows over here) and as it had a big-time main event, in a first for the UFC the show was starting at the usual time for PPVs, basically 3am in the UK! Pretty crazy to have the crowd have...

-The UFC’s yearly excursion to Japan, this show had somewhat of a weaker card than the usual fare, especially given that even free-TV Japanese UFC shows had tended to be stacked in the past. Main event was the return to action of Josh Barnett following quite a while on the shelf, and he had...

-A UFC show in the Philippines had been talked about for YEARS – going back to when they were trying to push Brandon Vera as a star back in like 2005-6 – and it would finally come to fruition here, albeit as a Fight Night card rather than a PPV. Undercard – which thankfully I won’t be...