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Theater of the Bizarre: Glorious Fights That Never Could Have Happened, Pt. III

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports, eras and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says, “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, once again, let your […]

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports, eras and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says, “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, once again, let your […]

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Theater of the Bizarre: Glorious Fights That Never Could Have Happened, Pt. II

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says, “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, once again, let your imagination […]

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says, “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, once again, let your imagination […]

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Theater of the Bizarre: Glorious Fights That Never Could Have Happened

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says: “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, let your imagination run wild. […]

Forget, if you can, that sad and limited group of considerations that say two fighters from different sports and weight classes can never meet in anger. Disregard the idea that says: “It would never happen because…” This kind of thinking has no place in the Theater of the Bizarre. Instead, let your imagination run wild. […]

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A Five-Round War for UFC 115: The Theater Experience

Filed under: UFCHaving experienced the UFC from the cheap seats as a fan, from sports bars, from restaurants with my face covered in wing sauce, from living rooms and from the (relative) comfort of press row, it was time Saturday to check off another b…

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Pat Barry and Mirko Cro CopHaving experienced the UFC from the cheap seats as a fan, from sports bars, from restaurants with my face covered in wing sauce, from living rooms and from the (relative) comfort of press row, it was time Saturday to check off another box: the UFC theater experience.

UFC 115 marked the promotion’s second card partnering with Fathom Events to show pay-per-views in movie theaters. The partnership was announced in February and UFC 111 in March kicked off the experiment. The UFC has said that fans’ reaction to watching their Octagon action on the silver screen the first time around was “a great experience and better than they had expected.”

I wanted to put that statement to the test, but I knew after a day that had already seen my butt in the same theater’s seats for “The A-Team,” plus a pre-fight meal of wings and fries, that I might very well be in for a five-round war.