The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 134

#1 Worst: 10 decisions?

The show was full of dull fights like Stefan Struve vs. Marcin Tybura

The UFC Fight Night series on Fox Sports 1 in the US already has a bad reputation for being a slog to get through, largely due to the poor pacing from the channel as they attempt to cram in as many commercials as possible. Last night’s show though was a slog for an entirely different reason – namely nine of the ten televised fights going the distance.

I’m not saying that a fight needs a violent finish to be entertaining – in fact, the majority of fights that are recognised as classics – Griffin vs. Bonnar, Rua vs. Henderson to name two – went to the judge’s scorecards. But last night’s show was crammed full of dull decisions, ones where the result never seemed in doubt and yet the winning fighter just couldn’t do enough to pick up a finish.

Sure, Nasrat Haqparast vs. Marc Diakiese and Danny Roberts vs. David Zawada weren’t bad fights, but let’s be honest, nobody is going to remember Glover Teixeira vs. Corey Anderson, Stefan Struve vs. Marcin Tybura and Vitor Miranda vs. Abu Azaitar in a couple of weeks, are they?

When a show is as low on name value as this one, the last thing you want is a long stretch of decisions. Fight Night 134 ended up tying the record for most decisions on any UFC card, and that made it a challenging watch.