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By Eric Kamander UFC 142, also known as UFC Rio - though I guess that should be UFC Rio 2 - went down last weekend and I didn't catch it live. Not that I didn't want to. I heard many people criticizing the card, but those are the people this series is aimed at. No, I had some personal obligations that kept me away Saturday night. When I finally finished "taking care of business" it was about 3 AM EST, so that's when I sat down to catch the action from Brazil.Exciting FinishesWhile I found the card very entertaining, when I try to look at it objectively it was entertaining like a good Strikeforce card: not a lot of back and forth, or high caliber fighters, but plenty of exciting finishes.In fact the last four fights featured fighters getting finished in the first round. But it's worth noting that the most devastating finish was the main card's first fight.Here we saw Edson Barboza cruising to what looked like a unanimous decision, when WHAM! Highlight ...
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