Ultimate Fighting Championship made their return to the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada with “UFC 209” and the main event left a bad taste in the fans’ mouths. UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley and Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson had another chess-match of a title fight that saw both men approach their opponent with the utmost caution. There were less than twenty significant strikes thrown by the time the second round had ended, and their pacing paled in comparison to the pacing of matches prior.
Fans took to social media and complained about the event, but UFC President Dana White was cage side for the entire card and thinks the fans should have little to complain about. There were several star-making performances throughout the card as well as a devastating knockout in the first main card fight of the night. White replied to these fans in the comment section of Instagram rather than tweeting out to them:
