I have seen plenty of better UFC PPV cards on paper and in how the fights played out but I have also seen plenty of worse ones on paper and how the fights played out.
The Bellator card had 5 quality fights. Many UFC cards have 3 quality fights and then fill the rest with fights like Nick Ring vs Camozzi and Colin Fletcher vs Ricci
This past weekend was them putting their best foot forward. They won't even try again until the end of the year. This is considering a weak UFC card coming up and it's just one of the many PPVs they are doing.
Rankings on fight matrix:
Renan Barao (#1 BW/ #5 P4P) vs. Tj Dillashaw (#7 BW)
Dan Henderson (#4 LHW) vs. Daniel Cormier ( #3 HW)
Robbie Lawler (#5WW) vs. Jake Ellenberger (#11 WW)
Takeya Mizugaki (#9 BW) vs. Francisco Riveria (#15 BW)
Jamie Varner (#58 LW) vs. James Krause ( #91 LW)
Fighters lost due to injury:
Chris Weidman (1# MW/ #4 P4P)
Lyoto Machida (#2 MW/ #7 P4P)
Junior Dos Santos, Chael Sonnen, Wanderlei Silva, Vitor Belfort, and Stipe Miccioc were scheduled but left due to reasons other than an injury to the card
Bellator 120
Quinton Jackson (#13 LHW) vs. Mohammed Lawal ( #15 LHW)
Michael Chandler (#7 LW) vs. Will Brooks (#18 LW)
Alexander Shlmenko ( #8 MW) vs. Tito Ortiz ( #19 LHW)
Alexander Volkov (# 19 HW) vs. Blagoi Ivanov (#27 HW)
Michael Page (#265 MW) vs. Ricky Rainy (#138 WW)
Fighters lost due to injury:
Eddie Alvarez (#6 LW)
Nate Jolly (#321 LW)
What am I missing here?