What do you rate the UFC 280 event?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Now that you had time to digest and take it in. What's your score?

I give it a solid 7. Without question it didn't meet the hype. However, the best fight was O'Malley/Yan.

 

[sdpdude9]

7/10 I guess. Prelims were rather weak overall, Belal/Brady and round 1 of Krylov/Volkan were good. Rest weren’t great. Main card was pretty good aside from the opener. All in all, didn’t play out like a card of the year it was on paper, but didn’t disappoint either.

 

[Crazy Librarian]

If Charles won, it would have been 9 for me

 

[Soggust]

Liked the Islam, Sean, Dariush, Mokaev and Brady Fights off the top of my head.

Aljo / TJ fight was disappointing as is any card with Chookagian on it.

8/10

 

[ninja boot]

It had plenty of star power but when you consider that TJ vs Aljo was a completely wasted fight and the token wmma fight was a snoozer it was average at best.

 

[jooohnmatrix]

Think the judging ruined the card for me.

 

[Chillez]

I would say 7/10 TJ vs Aljo was a letdown fight considering TJ shoulder issue coming into the fight and only able fight with one hand. The prelims were weak but main card was good but I expected more the fights looked amazing on paper but unfortunately it didn’t end up that way.

 

[Small Town Andrew]

I rated it a 5. The only fights that were good on the main card were Yan/Sterling, Dariush/Gamrot and Islam/Charles. The prelims did not turn out very good and were rather boring. That along with it being such an early start time meant it wasnt one of my better memories as a fan.

 

[ScarfaceJr]

6.5/10

Couldn't decide between 6 & 7.

 

[JustBleed69]

Now that you had time to digest and take it in. What's your score?

I give it a solid 7. Without question it didn't meet the hype. However, the best fight was O'Malley/Yan.

Name and matchup quality on paper: 9/10
Actual fight quality and outcome: 6-7/10

 

[HHJ]

I gave it an 8

Main and Yan fight,and dariush fight was TREMENDOUS

everything else; MEH

if more fights were good it would be a 9 or 10

 

[HHJ]

I think the event met the hype totally cos the fights that really needed to be good DELIVERED

 

[HHJ]

TJ and Aljo are both assholes and one of them had to lose so im fine with how that went.

 

[tornado362]

Honestly, I was super excited for this event. Had a good watch party going, snacks prepped, lovely 3:30pm start for us English folk.

And yeah I went to bed pretty pissed off.

The O'Malley decision was wank, then as soon as I saw TJ's arm pop out I was like "oh god, its just counting down the minutes until this is inevitably stopped" and then being a huge Oliveira fan, can't fault the main event, but ofc it didn't go my way and with the rest of the card being stale, it just left a sour taste in my mouth.

Had to go with a 6, because for the hype of this fight, it didn't really deliver for me. None of the fights have particularly stuck in my head, the O'malley/Yan fight was very good but the decision wasn't it for me. Krylov/Oezdemir was good, and Belal finally deciding he was a fighter was cool to see, but meh.

 

[NicholasJBasile]

The card was stacked with talent, but overall I did not enjoy it much. The highs of the card, in my opinion, were round 1 of Dariush/Gamrot, round 1 of Krylov/Oezdemir, and Islam's A+ performance. The card had other fights that I didn't feel were all too great, an injury 30 seconds into a title fight, a robbery, and a very premature stoppage (in my opinion).

 

[vinnie245]

Decent main card with some questionable judging and decisions (like letting TJ fight with an egregious injury) and some absolutely horrible prelims - 5
One of the weaker PPV's of the year overall especially with how hyped it was.

 

[BFoe]

I gave it a 6. Prelims weren’t good, co-main was a joke due to TJ’s injury, and main event was good but not a barnburner as Islam just handled him with relative ease. Yan-O’Malley was nice though.

 

[Kryptt]

7-8

I enjoyed most of the card and as mentioned several bouts were special!

 

[jeskola]

I gave it a 6 as the early card was somewhat boring with a lot of decisions and the Dillasnake injury spectacle could barely be called a fight.

 

[Exarch01]

With all the hate Chook gets, I'm surprised more people aren't excited French Chick was able to upset her. That was one of the highlights of the event for me.