On the PPV main cards? Not really unless they were ranked and fighting other ranked fighters.
Go back to random PPVs from 2015 and earlier. They were much better. If there was a "fun" fight they generally put it as the last prelim fight to get people already watching the fights and more likely to stick around for the PPV part.
Here's UFC 177 which Rogan called "the haunted card" because of how shit it became and this is even after they moved fights from 176 which got cancelled:
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It would fit nowadays just fine, barring obviously TJ vs Soto which was made on 24 hours notice after Barao fell in his bath tub cutting weight. But that's exactly why I say became as the original card was:
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We ain't getting a card like that except for International Fight Week. This was a random August PPV.