I said it this past summer, and I’m saying it again: Every fall card from the UFC, post-UFC 133—except for UFCs 138 and 139—features at least monumental title collision, and with both UFC 134 and UFC 135 in the books, along with last week’s UFC on Versus 6, we’re rapidly gunning up for UFC 136 in Houston.
In between Steve Cantwell’s return against Mike Massenzio and UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar’s trilogy against Gray Maynard is at least one solid representation of four of the seven established UFC weight divisions, and the who’s who that fills out the card in between that first Facebook preliminary and the main event guarantees fireworks, all before the co-main event and main event take place.
All the potential for Fight of The Night, Submission of The Night and Knockout of The Night exists in each fight on this card—and I say that with genuine excitement—and it’s all well and good on paper, but there’s a big difference between a fight card on paper and a fight card in reality.
So with all of this unleashed from its proverbial Pandora’s Box, what can we expect to go down this Saturday in Houston for UFC 136?