Feast or Famine: March is a UFC/Bellator drought

Starting off the month we get a Bellator card with Caldwell defending his newly minted belt and Warren fighting a fight to stay busy I guess. Remember when he had the belt? Bellator, I'll say this, the fights are almost always entertaining. The rest of the card is meeeeeeeeh, but hey, not every card can be the HW grand prix et cetera. I'll tune in because it's such a painfully slow MMA month as a fan.

The real throwdown for the month is Cyborg beating up another UFC debuting non-featherweight. I assume Nunes will be after this (yet another non-featherweight). Cyborg complains no one respects her but she'll fight people imported from outside the organization but will avoid the UFC champ in the weight class below her. C'mon buddy, be serious. The co-main was supposed to be Edgar vs Holloway but he's injured which is no one's fault. The plug in fight of Ortega is Edgar just doing what he does and fighting a dangerous dude and risking his shot at the belt by doing so. My hat off to him. Not a ton of dudes in the game like that these days. The card also features Arlovski (yep, he still has a job) versus Struve (yep, he still has a job). 

2 weeks later we get a solid fight night card with Werdum vs Volkov. Manuwa is chiming in again after disappearing for a bit to ice the pain of getting No Time'd by Oezdemir who got crushed by DC in a title defense after that. I mean, that DC would've done exactly the same to him doesn't probably make Manuwa any less salty about it. Just file it under another MMA fighter talks about crossing over to boxing to face a big name and gets slept in his next MMA fight, yikes. The card has some notables like Dodson, Beneil Dariush, Zaleski De Santos, and CB Dolloway. 

I can get through March because I'm looking forward to that Khabib vs Ferguson fight in April that is gonna be bonkers. What we do get in March other than Cyborg beating up another non-featherweight, is the debut of Mackenzie Dern. Be interesting to see if she makes weight (had some issues previously) and how she fares. The division is thin so she'll make waves with a series of submission wins (ala Rousey). 

It's gonna be a slow month outside of a full blown ppv with cyborg fighting another non featherweight and UFC debuting fighter, and what should've been Edgar vs holloway, but was salvaged via Edgar facing Ortega. Not the UFC's fault.