Ufc 178 was to be one of the biggest cards of the year.
Then it lost Jon Jones and it’s headlining fight.
So how did the card fare?
The answer, thankfully, is not bad. Ufc 178 turned out to be one of the better Ufc Pay-per-Views of 2014 thus far, thanks in large part to a strong supporting cast. With Cat Zingano vs. Amanda Nunes, Yoel Romero vs. Tim Kennedy, Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier, and Donald Cerrone vs. Eddie Alvarez, the card solid from top to bottom, and the “new” main event of Mighty Mouse Johnson vs. Chris Cariaso, barely in the top ten at flyweight, was almost an afterthought. Sort of a “we need a title fight” situation.
Better yet, all of the fights were solid, as was the televised preliminary fight between Dominick Cruz and Takeya Mizugaki (Patrick Cote vs. Wonderboy Thompson wasn’t bad either).
There was a...
Then it lost Jon Jones and it’s headlining fight.
So how did the card fare?
The answer, thankfully, is not bad. Ufc 178 turned out to be one of the better Ufc Pay-per-Views of 2014 thus far, thanks in large part to a strong supporting cast. With Cat Zingano vs. Amanda Nunes, Yoel Romero vs. Tim Kennedy, Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier, and Donald Cerrone vs. Eddie Alvarez, the card solid from top to bottom, and the “new” main event of Mighty Mouse Johnson vs. Chris Cariaso, barely in the top ten at flyweight, was almost an afterthought. Sort of a “we need a title fight” situation.
Better yet, all of the fights were solid, as was the televised preliminary fight between Dominick Cruz and Takeya Mizugaki (Patrick Cote vs. Wonderboy Thompson wasn’t bad either).
There was a...
- 9/29/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
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