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Pretty busy weekend

Friday

8pm - (Spike) - Bellator 184, Dantas vs. Cantwell

So... when I saw that the main event didn't have any big names, I assumed this would be a random below-average Bellator card. Then I pulled up tapology, looked at rankings and records, and this is actually decent. This would be a bad UFC card, but by Bellator standards its actually pretty good. If you have nothing else to do, maybe you should tune in, this looks like an impressive little Bellator card.

Saturday

7pm TV - (5:15 pm Fightpass/7pm FS1/9pm PPV) - UFC 217, Ferguson vs Lee

This is a VERY good PPV. Its not going to sell worth a shit because this is a big college football weekend and the 2 title fights have no big famous names that were ever heard of among casual fans, but among hard-core fight fans there are A LOT of sweet fights to watch here. 4 out of the 5 fights on the PPV are great and interesting. All 4 of the FS1 prelims are good and important for their respective divisions, and the online fightpass prelims have a couple really cool fights. It is really a shame that this event will not get the respect it deserves, but I've arranged a little BBQ UFC party with family and friends for these fights, this is on paper going to be one of the best cool cage-fighting events this year that almost nobody outside of hard core UFC fans watch.

Sunday

midnight - (Fightpass) - Pancrase 290

It is what it is. There's not much talent here, and its in the middle of the night, but if you are awake, you may as well watch. To put into perspective just how terrible the talent is here, we do not have ANY of the top 25 Japanese fighters in ANY weight division on this card. These guys are all chasing a dream they will not attain. On the plus side, there's no delay for commercials, they shuttle fighters in and out of the cage really fast and the fight card has a ton of fights with no one you've heard of.

noon - (Fightpass) - EFN 76

This card is weird. Most of this card is ****ing terrible even by local promotion standards, BUT the last 2 fights are actually interesting. There's a couple former UFC fighters trying to fight their way back into the show, but before the last two fights we've got a lot of random bums.