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Hindsight Doubleheader: UFC Fight Night Manila & 187 in retrospect

UFC 187 was just as good as an MMA event can get. The PPV card, especially, was just a non-stop thriller of great fights from start to finish. Andrei Arlovski took Travis Browne to the gates of Valhalla in one of the best fights I've seen in a long time and it was immediately followed by 3 classics, including two huge comebacks for the middleweight and light heavyweight titles. The UFC couldn't have scripted that event better if they'd tired. It's one of the underrated things about booking a card like this, where so many fights seem one-sided in the odds, is that when upsets happen, they're huge upsets and otherwise, great fighters get the chance to look great against real quality opponents and not just cans.