The UFC 202 card has been spear headed by the highly anticipated rematch between Featherweight champion Conor McGregor and the winner of their last contest Nate Diaz. The two of them have done a ridiculous amount of media and truly captured the mainstream with their equally ridiculous antics and words.
Unfortunately this means that there has almost been no coverage of any of the other fights... and they're great!! The casual fan or someone who follows mainstream sports news may not even be aware that there are other fights on August 21st or of the monsters that will step foot in the octagon prior to the main event.
We kick off the underrated fights at UFC 202 in the Welterweight division on fight pass, top 10 contender Neil Magny and exciting upcoming contender Lorenz Larkin. The featured fight pass prelim promises to be a fight with a lot of action, Neil Magny has a huge average of 4.15 significant strikes per minute and his opponent Lorenz Larkin has a 59% KO/TKO finishing rate.
The next underrated fight on this card is Cody Garbrandt vs Takeya Mizugaki. This is a killer fight between the young knockout phenom Garbrandt and the hardened veteran Mizugaki. What's even crazier is that this fight is only on the prelims! Cody Garbrandt is undefeated, a wrestler and a boxer winning 8 of 9 wins by KO/TKO, 6 of those in the first round. He faces the 32 fight veteran and extremely tough fighter Takeya Mizugaki who has won 21 of those bouts. Number 8 vs number 11 means if this fight comes to an exciting finish either man could be one fight away from a title
The three fights that finish the card are ridiculous and first up is Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone vs Rick Story. Don't let Cowboy's 14th ranking fool you, Cowboy is predominantly a lightweight however after losing his title shot he moved up to 170 but continued to say that he will fight at either weight depending on what fight comes first. Although recently he has looked better than ever at 170 and could potentially put a run together at welterweight. A man looking to stop him is the recently returning Rick Story, Story looked good in his return bout in the octagon after nearly two years off and a win over Donald Cerrone would put him very close to the top 5 and into the number 1 contender conversation.
Finally the co-main event of UFC 202 which has had almost no media coverage which is ridiculous considering it's Anthony Johnson vs Glover Teixeira which is #1 vs #2 in the light heavyweight division! The winner of this contest will have the next title shot and it's between two absolute monsters. Anthony Johnson is an absolute killer and Glover's boxing skills are extremely good, Rumble has a 71% KO/TKO rate and Glover has an 84% finishing rate!! This is an insane fight people!! why was it not promoted?!
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