The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 146: Lewis vs. Dos Santos

#2 Worst: That run of decisions in the middle of the card

The show suffered from a run of forgettable fights like Tim Boetsch vs. Omari Akhmedov

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against fights going the distance. Obviously it’s never going to be possible for every fight to end in a submission or knockout, and some of my favourite fights of all time – Diego Sanchez vs. Nick Diaz, Stipe Miocic vs. Junior Dos Santos, Carlos Condit vs. Jake Ellenberger – ended in decisions. But when you get a run of fights going the distance like we did last night, it gets a bit frustrating.

That feeling particularly comes if those fights simply aren’t that engaging, and unfortunately, that’s exactly what we saw last night. Maurice Greene vs. Jeff Hughes, Grant Dawson vs. Julian Erosa, Yana Kunitskaya vs. Marion Reneau, Anthony Rocco Martin vs. Sergio Moraes and Tim Boetsch vs. Omari Akhmedov all went the distance, giving us a total of 75 minutes of fighting, and really only Dawson/Erosa was fun to watch.

The rest were simply dull, largely forgettable affairs with very few high points. None of them bar Greene/Hughes was terrible per se, and sandwiched between knockouts or tapouts they probably would’ve been fine, but 5 decisions in a row was a difficult watch, even on a fast-paced card like this one, and it made me feel bad for the Wichita fans.