The best and worst from UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva

Modified Feb 10, 2019 10:15 GMT

Israel Adesanya defeated Anderson Silva in last night's main event

#2 Worst: How can the UFC charge money for this?

Should the UFC be charging $65 for people to see fights like Ricky Simon vs. Rani Yahya?

Okay, so UFC 234 went down about as well as anyone could’ve hoped given the circumstances surrounding the cancelled main event, as well as a weak card coming in. But is it really right that the world’s biggest MMA promotion should be charging fans in the USA $64.99 to watch a show like this? The answer is almost certainly no.

Quite why the UFC chose to put on such a weak card is a question mark – the likely answer is that the Rod Laver Arena sold out based on the Whittaker/Gastelum and Adesanya/Silva fights and so the UFC felt they didn’t need to fill the card with any more big stars – but really, moving in that direction, with one or two-fight cards, simply sends the sport closer towards boxing and that’s something no MMA fan should want.

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I’m not complaining about the performance of fighters like Jimmy Crute, Montana De La Rose and Lando Vannata here, but I sincerely hope that UFC 234 was a box office bomb – because that would hopefully mean that in the future, the UFC will look to stack their pay-per-view cards more heavily. They’re supposed to be the centrepiece of the promotion’s shows, remember – not throwaway cards like this one.

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