5 Talking Points from UFC Fight Night 89

#4 Stand and Deliver

Steve Bosse may have won the fight, but Sean O’Connell certainly didn’t lose

It may have been a reckless albeit maverick spirit that seized Max Holloway and Ricardo Lamas in the final 10 seconds of their fight at UFC 199, but Steve Bosse and Sean O’Connell embraced it willingly throughout the entirety of their fight.

It was almost as if the volcanic eruption of a fight between Travis Browne and Andrei Arlovski had been dragged out through three whole rounds, with O’Connell rocking and almost finishing Bosse in the first round and the Canadian returning the favour in the second.

And despite completely throwing caution to the wind in the third, both men braved the other’s best shots and were willing to stand and trade to take the fight to the distance.It was a surprise that it even lasted that long, but what wasn’t surprising was that it took the Fight of The Night honours by the time it was done.