UFC Mexico City – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
UFC Mexico City had a lot of drama from Brandon Royval getting an emotional win, to a Yair Rodriguez not capitalizing against Brian Ortega and of course a massive brawl amongst fans.
Now that the event is all wrapped up, let’s review it by going over the good, the bad and the ugly from UFC Mexico City.
The full recap can also be seen in the video above.
The Good – Brandon Royval
In the UFC Mexico City main event, Brandon Royval edged out a very close split decision win over Brandon Moreno.
Following the fight, Royval was emotional when speaking with the ESPN crew on the desk as he admitted he was in a dark place following his UFC flyweight title defeat to Alexandre Pantoja.
It was nice seeing Royval being able to put that behind him and pick up arguably the biggest win of his career.
The Bad – Yair Rodriguez
Based off of how you the UFC Mexico City co-main event started, you would have expected Rodriguez to run away with his fight against Brian Ortega.
First off, Ortega needly hurt himself as Bruce Buffer was announcing his name.
Following that, Rodriguez was knocking Ortega all across the octagon in the opening round and had Ortega bleeding from his nose with notable swelling on his face.
How’d that fight end? Ortega submitting Rodriguez in the third round.
Bad loss for Rodriguez, who was fighting in front of his home country.
The Ugly – The UFC event staff
Maybe the event staff shouldn’t take all the heat as you can push it on the arena staff, but the massive brawl that broke out in the crowd was a bad look for the UFC.
The video went of the fight went viral and was all over social media so even people who aren’t UFC fans were exposed to the brawl.
Fights happen amongst fans in just about all every single sport and they are never good looks. This one was especially bad as security was nowhere in sight.
I’m sure the UFC will get that fixed up and the next time they return to Mexico, it won’t be an issue.
