While this weekend gave UFC fans plenty to talk about and look forward to, the UFC 287 main event left us with one important question: Where does Israel Adesanya‘s middleweight championship win over Alex Pereira place him among the top pound-for-pound fighters?
Beyond last weekend’s card, two upcoming fight announcements also sparked questions such as: What will Adesanya’s teammate, UFC men’s featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, do after his upcoming title fight against interim champ Yair Rodriguez?
And what about the announcement of a trilogy bout between double champ Amanda Nunes and former women’s bantamweight champ Julianna Peña? Could we be looking at the greatest rivalry in the history of women’s MMA?
Would a win over Max Holloway mean that Arnold Allen could be next in line for a featherweight title shot?
ESPNs panel of Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim sorts out what’s real and what’s not following the UFC’s pay-per-view in Miami, and each offers the next PPV event he wants to see booked.
Real or not: Israel Adesanya is a top-5 P4P fighter
Raimondi: Pretty clearly real. Adesanya has now avenged the…
