5 reasons to watch UFC Fight Night 136

#2 The main event features two genuine finishers

UFC 217: Oleinik v Blaydes — Aleksei Oleinik has finished 44 of his 56 wins by submission or TKO

A UFC main event featuring a 44-year old against a 41-year-old sounds like a terrible idea at a glance, but in this case, it could deliver one of 2018’s most exciting fights. Not only are Mark Hunt and Aleksei Oleinik still very relevant fighters in the Heavyweight division – Hunt currently sits at #8 in the UFC’s official rankings, Oleinik at #11 – but they’re both finishing machines inside the Octagon.

Hunt’s UFC record currently sits at 8-7-1, which doesn’t sound that impressive, but he’s literally fought nothing but absolute killers since he arrived in the Octagon in 2010. And of those 16 fights, just 4 have gone the distance – one of which, his 2013 draw with Antonio Silva, was an all-time classic brawl.

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Oleinik meanwhile is 5-2 in UFC action with just one fight going to the judges. In fact, outside of his 2016 decision loss to Daniel Omielanczuk, you have to go all the way back to 2012 to find an Oleinik fight that went the distance. Somehow, ‘The Boa Constrictor’ has finished 44 of his 56 wins by submission and 8 of them by knockout – giving him a finishing percentage of 93%.

Essentially, whichever way the fight goes on Saturday, the likelihood of it going 25 minutes is somewhere between slim and none – and slim seems likely to leave town.

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