The titles of MMA events have become incredibly generic of late, encompassing little detail beyond the name of the promotion putting on the fights.
Bellator sticks with their name and Roman numerals; the UFC uses event numbers and the names of its main event fighters (UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort, or UFC on Fuel TV: Struve vs. Miocic); while Strikeforce, as Zuffa’s other promotion, has followed suit.
Such blandness really makes you long for the good old days when events had super cool names like “UFC 109: Relentless,” and “Pride 13: Collision Course.”
Alright, maybe it doesn’t.
Though today’s event names are not all that enthralling, they still reign superior over many past attempts at cleverness that were quite simply horrendous
The following is a list of 15 events that received titles which completely missed the mark.