The best and worst from UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz

#1 Worst: The ending to the main event

Masvidal vs. Diaz was a tremendous fight, but the ending was marred in controversy

Okay, so you can’t take anything away from the performance of Jorge Masvidal in last night’s main event fight with Nate Diaz. ‘Gamebred’ hit Diaz with some incredible shots, and had him on the verge of being finished on more than one occasion.

Diaz was able to stay in the fight and caught Masvidal with some clean shots of his own, but going into the fourth round it was pretty clear that Masvidal was ahead on the scorecards.

Basically, the fight was living up to all the hype put on it going in – a battle to decide the UFC’s ‘Baddest Motherf***er’ – only for the cageside doctor to put a stop to things due to cuts around Diaz’s right eye. Sure, the cuts were bad, but fighters have gone through much worse and Diaz was clearly ready to continue fighting and his sight didn’t seem compromised either.

Even referee Dan Miragliotta looked disappointed when he had to stop the fight. For me this was perhaps the worst ending to a big UFC fight since 2006’s Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock rematch, off the top of my head at least.

To have Dwayne Johnson presenting a fighter with a belt while the crowd were showering the cage with chants of “bulls**t” was not a good look. It wasn’t the UFC’s fault of course, but it was still hugely disappointing – and will go down as one of the all-time worst endings to a UFC pay-per-view.