If you’re looking for a reason to stay up late into Saturday morning – or wake up ridiculously early – I can’t find a legit reason. The prelims of UFC Shenzhen are terrible… by UFC standards. Only three contests feature combatants with a single UFC victory, only two fighters have winning UFC records, and the most wins by any of them is two. Those wins haven’t exactly come against quality competition either.
I realize having a UFC track record doesn’t necessarily guarantee a quality contest, but there aren’t any hot prospects there either. Some may point to Anthony Hernandez, but I’m not sold on him yet as being a significant piece of the middleweight puzzle in the future.