5 weakest UFC pay-per-view cards of all time

#3 UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami – 11/13/2010

UFC 122 was devoid of name value and ranked fighters

By 2010, one of the main criticisms aimed at the UFC was that they were booking way too many shows for their roster strength to handle. For the most part that was true – it wasn’t until 2011 that the lighter weight classes were added to the promotion following the closing of WEC – and perhaps the greatest example of that was the super-weak UFC 122 card from November.

The show – the UFC’s second effort in Germany after their debut there in June 2009 – featured an incredibly weak card, headlined by a UFC Middleweight title eliminator between Yushin Okami and Nate Marquardt, who stepped in to replace Vitor Belfort. Okami ended up winning a dull fight – and had to wait until August 2011 for his title shot.

Dennis Siver – 5-4 in the UFC at the time – took on Andre Winner in the co-main event with the Brit coming off a loss. How the two men found themselves in the co-main event of a UFC show was anyone’s guess given they’d featured in 3 televised fights between them prior to this show.

The other three main card fights saw dull decision wins for Amir Sadollah, Krzysztof Soszynski and Duane Ludwig over Peter Sobotta, Goran Reljic and Nick Osipczak respectively – and Ludwig’s win was one of the worst judges’ decisions of the year to add insult to injury. Naturally, none of the fighters were anywhere near the top ten of their division at the time of the show.

Overall UFC 122 was a hugely disappointing show, both on paper and in execution – and when the WEC merger was announced a few weeks later, it was immediately suggested by some fans that the idea behind it was to prevent more shows like this one from happening.