UFC Fight Night 68 was, on paper, not a very good card. Of course, the problem with paper is that it’s two-dimensional, and immutable. Unless you know origami. Which I do not.
Title implications and hot up-and-comers were hard to come by throughout the 12-fight slate, which went down Saturday evening from New Orleans. The main event pitted 44-year-old Dan Henderson against Tim Boetsch, an inconsistent middleweight 10 years Henderson’s junior. A loser in five of his last six bouts, Hendo is receiving main event-level matchups these days more because of his past than his present.
There were also a couple of Louisiana boys who made interesting hometown favorites. Dustin Poirier fought for the second time since returning to lightweight when he tangled with the dangerous Yancy Medeiros. Shawn Jordan, a former LSU lineman, took on Crescent City native Derrick Lewis in one of the evening’s two heavyweight brawls (Ben Rothwell vs. Matt Mitrione was the other).
Would the actual fights be a formality confirmation, or would it flip the paper off the desk? As always, the final stat lines only reveal so much. Here are the real winners and losers from the Big Easy.