It’s not a good thing when the preliminary fights on Facebook and FX are better than the bouts that fans paid $45 to watch ($55 in HD).
That was the case for UFC 149, as most of the potentially good feature matches were stinkers. It’s a toss-up between Cheick Kongo vs, Shawn Jordan and Hector Lombard vs. Tim Boetsch for the night’s most boring bout.
The main event was only slightly better, and it certainly wasn’t enough to save a bad night of fighting. Renan Barao defeated Urijah Faber to become the interim bantamweight champion, but the jewel of the night was a seven-second KO shown on FX.
Canadian light heavyweight Ryan Jimmo was making his UFC debut, and boy did he ever make an entrance.
He absolutely flattened Anthony Perosh with a clean and vicious right hand. Perosh was out like a light, and adding insult to injury was Jimmo doing the robot and a split after the KO.
Jimmo has style and power, and his performance was the most memorable of the night.
Francisco Rivera and Antonio Carvalho also scored impressive first-round KOs in their preliminary matchups.
Rivera stopped a game, but overmatched Roland Delorme with a nice step back and counter. Delorme had taken a few hard shots in the round, but the short counter ended the festivities.
Carvalho was very impressive with an annihilation of Daniel Pineda in the second fight of the night. He showed great stand-up fighting skills and a vicious right hand stopped Pineda.
The Calgary, Alberta crowd booed loudly in several fights. Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg were left speechless in several bouts. Dana White’s post-event press conference will be interesting after a calamity like this.
To put it bluntly, this event was not worth more than $19.99.
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