The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 146: Lewis vs. Dos Santos

#1 Worst: Heavyweight is terrible at times

Ben Rothwell's fight with Blagoy Ivanov was largely dull

If the main event between Dos Santos and Lewis delivered greatly, the other two Heavyweight fights on offer most certainly did not. Both Ben Rothwell vs. Blagoy Ivanov and Maurice Greene vs. Jeff Hughes represented the very worst of Heavyweight MMA – plodding affairs with little to no high points throughout, and both went the distance too.

Rothwell vs. Ivanov was actually a fight I was looking forward to – I was intrigued to see how Rothwell would cope returning from a 3 year layoff, and how Ivanov would look in his second UFC outing. But in the end it was simply a bad fight.

Rothwell pushed the pace throughout and seemed to get the better of the striking exchanges, but Ivanov did bust him up pretty badly and the judges saw that as enough for him to take the win. But the slow pace and lack of action meant that nobody will want to see either man’s next fight any time soon.

Greene vs. Hughes was even worse; the big men were perhaps slightly more active than Rothwell and Ivanov, but the crude action and slow pace made for a real yawner, and in all honesty, I’m not convinced either man is a UFC-level fighter. I don’t like to dog on professional fighters, but you just don’t get these kinds of dull fights in the lower weight classes.

If Lewis/Dos Santos was the best of Heavyweight MMA, these two fights were an example of the worst.