A 12-fight card at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City was headlined by two title fights. In the co-main event, Julianna Peña reclaimed the title she took from Amanda Nunes as her split decision victory over Raquel Pennington earned her the women’s bantamweight belt. Will Peña vs. Kayla Harrison be next? To make sense of it all, Andreas Hale and Brett Okamoto offer their final takeaways on a dramatic fight night.
The spooky season of Poatan
Hale: It feels fitting that this fight happened to kick off the month of October as Alex Pereira resembled Michael Myers, the relentless antagonist from the slasher film series “Halloween,” with his ability to stalk his opponents while wearing an expressionless mask on his face.
Pereira doesn’t need the mask, but the relentlessness feels just as spooky.
Few thought he would lose to Khalil Rountree Jr., and most expected a finish in the light heavyweight title fight. The predicted outcome happened, but the systematic way Pereira broke down a sturdy challenger with a disciplined offering of calf kicks and jabs in the face of adversity from a heavy-handed opponent was…
