To me this is a can’t miss event and has an outside chance to be the first Pay-Per-View headlined by Jon Jones to break a million buys. Preux, Thomas Almeida, and Song Yadong) and it barely made a dent. Aspen Ladd) and three other notable fighters (Ovince St. They lost one fight with a former champion (Holly Holm vs.
But I’m surprised just how much they loaded this one up. There’s always the International Fight Week event in July and this year they seem to be aiming for a stadium show in Brazil with a lot of big fights. It seems to me that the UFC likes to do a big tentpole event every quarter with the exception of the fourth quarter when they tend to do two (November at Madison Square Garden and their end of year show). Its a stacked card filled with championship fights, former champions, exciting prospects, and interesting match-ups. After canceling UFC 233 and the debacle that was UFC 234, UFC 235 is coming correct. This weekend’s event in Las Vegas, Nevada is the complete opposite. (You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.) Honestly I was surprised that they didn’t just move the event onto ESPN+ as a show of good faith. Luckily for the UFC the main event turned out to be a ton of fun and for the most part the rest of the fights were entertaining even if they meant absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. A $65 PPV headlined by a three round fight between a 43 year old legend who became 1-5-1 in his last seven fights following a loss and an undefeated prospect who didn’t yet have the cache to carry the weight of an entire PPV on his shoulders. So when Whittaker had to be pulled from the card on the day of the fight for emergency hernia and bowel surgery it suddenly became something else.
February’s UFC 234 was paper thin, relying solely on the top two fights – a middleweight championship bout between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum as well as a star making performance from Israel Adesanya against Anderson Silva. It’s the tale of two UFC Pay-Per-View’s back to back.
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