Hindsight Doubleheader: UFC Fight Night Manila & 187 in retrospect

Oh what a day, what a lovely day!*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. Oh... and UFC Fight Night Manila happened. That was good too. Between the two of them I went 14-9, not exactly great, but there was a lot of judging weirdness.

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