When the early story of the night is a near-record number of split decisions, well, you probably need a good main card.
And that’s what we got at UFC on Fox 8 Saturday night, broadcast live from KeyArena in Seattle. It wasn’t scintillating action from gavel to gavel, but it was just that: good.
The event culminated with home-state flyweight and beltholder Demetrious Johnson making his second defense against dangerous, if unheralded, challenger John Moraga. And doing so just days after his wife gave birth, no less.
Would the champ’s head be in the game? And what about the rest of the main card? Here are my grades for every fighter who laced up the fingerless gloves on national TV.