UFC 228 This Weekend: Are You Able to Care?

Watching a guy who completely failed to make weight for his title contender fight.....get to fight a guy who set records for lowest punch output (not once....but twice in a row) for the belt....well, it's hard to feel the "needle move" in UFC brass jargon/speak.

There's some legit female fights on the card, so there's that I suppose. At this point, we're all actually waiting for UFC 229 with Khabib/Conor and Pettis/Ferguson. Let's just call it what it is. The title fight kinda makes sense for UFC brass in a way: Till pulls off an upset and becomes a UK champ which is great for the brand over there. Woodley puts on another snoozer and the UFC continues to be able to hardball with him and put it on him for sleep-aid effective performances until Covington is healthy and can fight him and drum up support for a fight.

A stellar UFC card it is not...but like I said, at this point we all know what we're really waiting for at this point in time: Khabib vs Conor, even if it has about zero promotion being done for it.

If anything, this card feels more like a coming out party for the women on the roster than anything: we've got Schevchenko, Kowalkiewicz, and Esparza amongst others. We've also got a big jump up in exposure for Zabit Magomedsharipov last in action on that ill-fated Brooklyn card where McGregor utilized the dolly tossing precision to take out 3 UFC fighters in one toss. Elsewhere on the card Rivera looks to rebound from that title shot defusion headkick loss after talking a mountain of *&^% about Marlon Moraes and faces the still no idea what to do Dodson who just can't beat # 2 and # 1 in the flyweight division. To give you an idea, Jim Miller and Diego Sanchez are on the fight pass prelims. I don't mind because I end up tuning in to the fight pass prelims because I'm still awake, and it's not super late, and I stream them from home on Fight Pass, but damn if this won't be one of those nights where I'm knocked out asleep 1 fight into the main card. I will prob set an alarm to wake up to see Schevchenko win a belt and see Kowalkiewicz then maybe possibly hopefully make it through to see Till vs Marathon runner non-punching Woodley.