Perhaps more than anything else, UFC Fight Night 47 has positioning going for it.
The Octagon makes its first trip to Maine on Saturday in the UFC’s first fight card in 21 days. By the measure of 2014’s jam-packed live event schedule, that’s basically an eternity. With a week’s worth of mostly bad news also clogging our timelines at the moment, it’s easy to get the impression fight fans are just going to, you know, want to watch some fights this weekend.
To that end, Saturday night looks just right. Despite a head-scratcher of a main event, this event serves up a handful of other interesting attractions.
But what will happen? Exactly? Glad you asked. Here, Bleacher Report MMA lead writers Chad Dundas and Jonathan Snowden take their best, boldest guesses…