UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar - Winners and Losers

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLCOn paper, UFC 240 was underwhelming. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise as the UFC hasn’t exactly been packing cards in Canada with quality and UFC 240 was no exception. I don’t want to say the cards low expectations were merely met as that would be selling short. However, calling it an overwhelming success would be an outright lie as well. I suppose the truth is somewhere in between. Though the main event saw Max Holloway add to his legacy by turning away an aging legend in Frankie Edgar, the highlights of the evening saw Cris Cyborg turn away a spirited Felicia Spencer and flyweights Deiveson Figueiredo and Alexandre Pantoja light up the evening with one hell of a barnburner. Of course, those brilliant performances were offset by a few others that would be better off having little mentioned about….

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