This is where we are in 2019: Greg Hardy, he of the notorious background, bungled his way into a disqualification loss at Saturday night’s UFC Brooklyn event. For that, he left with a guaranteed return fight. And Henry Cejudo, who beat the hell out of a pound-for-pound great who normally fights one weight class above him, left wondering what exactly his future held.
The UFC Brooklyn card that kicked off the ESPN era may not have been explicitly designed for the purpose of killing off Cejudo’s flyweight division, but sending your bantamweight champ down to his weight class, one which you’ve publicly given a no-confidence vote to, sure seemed designed as a kiss of death.