MMA Vivisection & 6th Round

UFC OKC was a mediocre card on paper, and in practice, we got a mixed bag of results. It was, however, better than I expected it to be. Opening the prelims, Dione Barbosa delivered the first action sequence when she scored a first round rear naked choke submission over Anna Melisano. RJ Harris followed that up with a quick TKO of Alvin Hines, and he only needed 100 seconds to...

UFC OKC was a mediocre card on paper, and in practice, we got a mixed bag of results. It was, however, better than I expected it to be. Opening the prelims, Dione Barbosa delivered the first action sequence when she scored a first round rear naked choke submission over Anna Melisano. RJ Harris followed that up with a quick TKO of Alvin Hines, and he only needed 100 seconds to...

UFC Oklahoma City has a stats sheet that reads like a miserable novel. Three ranked fights, but they’re all kind of nothingburgers—what even IS that main event?! Eleven fighters are hailing from Dana White’s Contender Series, with a handful of them not even able to win their fight in that extremely low bar for entry to the world’s “biggest and best” MMA…

UFC Oklahoma City has a stats sheet that reads like a miserable novel. Three ranked fights, but they’re all kind of nothingburgers—what even IS that main event?! Eleven fighters are hailing from Dana White’s Contender Series, with a handful of them not even able to win their fight in that extremely low bar for entry to the world’s “biggest and best” MMA…

The UFC is in Oklahoma City this weekend, and the official hashtag for the event was #UFCOCK, initially. It took the social media crew at the premier MMA organization a couple hours to get their hilarious blunder managed, but they got the job done. It isn’t the best looking card, especially for an on-the-road event. That said, it’s not the worst one we’…