My thinking was changed when I watched UFC on Fox 17. The prelims had 4 future champions (Ngannou, Shevchenko, Oliveira, Usman). It also featured Vicente Luque and Leon Edwards (Usman's opponent, headlined the Fight Pass prelims and now the rematch is a world title bout!).
Second, that card was crazy-stacked; I remember it well. It's weird to me how people can look back nostalgically and appreciate great cards like that, but rarely does it carry over to giving current cards the same benefit of the doubt, for lack of a better term. If that many top-end talents can come from an event like that, why can't the same happen with a couple people from the prelims of any event?
My thinking was changed when I watched UFC on Fox 17. The prelims had 4 future champions (Ngannou, Shevchenko, Oliveira, Usman). It also featured Vicente Luque and Leon Edwards (Usman's opponent, headlined the Fight Pass prelims and now the rematch is a world title bout!).
First, thanks for the comment.
Second, that card was crazy-stacked; I remember it well. It's weird to me how people can look back nostalgically and appreciate great cards like that, but rarely does it carry over to giving current cards the same benefit of the doubt, for lack of a better term. If that many top-end talents can come from an event like that, why can't the same happen with a couple people from the prelims of any event?
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