UFC on Fuel TV 9 went down Saturday from the Ericsson Globe Arena in The City That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stockholm, Sweden.
The main event originally featured light heavyweight contender and wildly popular Swede Alexander Gustafsson, who was supposed to fight in front of his home crowd against Gegard Mousasi, a young but experienced stud making his UFC debut after years of tantalizing and sometimes disappointing fans in other MMA promotions.
But then came The Cut. Goodbye, Gus. Hello, Ilir Latifi, an accomplished grappler but relatively unexceptional mixed martial artist.
So what happened in the main event? What happened across the card, including the Facebook prelims, which began at like four in the morning on the West Coast? Ws and Ls are only two of the letters one can employ when concocting an analysis. To identify the real winners and losers from Stockholm, we used all 26.