Episode 550: UFC 288 doesn't overachieve

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

You know how some fight cards that look pretty "meh" on paper turn out to be unexpectedly great? Yeah, UFC 288 wasn't really one of those. Headlined by an important but perhaps not best-selling men's bantamweight title fight between Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo, this one didn't really appear to live up to the high standards set by some of the UFC's other PPVs this year. There was nothing wrong with Sterling's unanimous decision win over Cejudo and there was nothing wrong with Belal Muhammad's UD over Gilbert Burns. But this card didn't blow our hair back and these wins probably aren't going to get Sterling and Muhammad the respect they deserve. Speaking of not getting the respect he deserves, Demetrious Johnson looked as good as ever in (yet another kinda nondescript) unanimous decision win over Adriano Moraes in One Championship. Johnson took the trilogy and was Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.8	You're listening to the co-main event podcast.
1:11.1	And now your hosts, Benks and Chad Dundas.
1:17.9	That's right.
1:19.1	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
1:25.0	I'm Chad Dundas.
1:26.4	That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists, and for the last
1:31.3	11 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird,
1:37.5	and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts. Ben, UFC 288 was over the weekend. It was a bit of a nondescript pay-per-view,
1:49.3	I think. Technically, both of the five-round main event and co-main event ended in upsets.
1:56.1	And they were fine, but really, this event kind of lacked the blockbuster feel of some of the other
2:03.2	recent UFC pay-per-views. We have talked at length about what seems to be the UFC's current
2:08.8	business model, and that is to kind of throw out whatever fights are available every week during
2:14.7	these ESPN plus fight nights. But then to really stack up and load the pay-per-view events,
2:20.8	so each one feels special and feels like something people would actually want to spend
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