UFC 142: Why it May have been better for the UFC to Air It for Free

Last Saturday was the second time in six months that the UFC held a show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the show was exciting to say the least. Yet from the outset when the card was being filled out, it didn't really live up to previous cards, especially since it was the first card of the year. If you compare it to the previous Brazil card, UFC 134, it gets completely blown out of the water. While UFC 134 had a main card headlined by the Middleweight Title match between Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami, you also had a rematch between Shogun Rua and Forrest Griffin, a heavyweight bout between Brendan Schaub and Minotauro Noguiera, and a lightweight fight between Ross Pearson and Edson Barboza. Yet when promoting UFC 142, the only matches that were really being promoted were the Featherweight Title match between Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes, the supposed Middleweight debut of Anthony Johnson against Vitor Belfort, and a Middleweight bout between Rousimar Palhares and Mike Massenzio. ...