UFC 185 RESULT
There's a kind of standing perplexity around Anthony "Showtime" Pettis. What to make of him? Where to space him? Instructions to brand him?
Anyhow the perplexity generally disperses when Pettis does his thing. That thing being, to be specific, to wreck everybody he confronts, without fail, with a practically blinding mix of expertise, panache and physicality.
The ruling UFC lightweight champ has all the fixings of a hotshot yet, for reasons unknown, never appears to work into a completed dish. Regardless of four successive stoppage wins over first class rivals and a smooth air outside the enclosure, the 28-year-old has yet to catch creative impulses in the same path as somebody like, say, Ronda Rousey.
Carla Esparza has a comparable issue. Only a couple of months prior, she was splendid in vanquishing Rose Namajunas to turn into the UFC's first-ever ladies' strawweight champion. In any case individuals were pulling for the more dynamic Namajunas. Esparza's style is changing in its own particular manner, however she has yet to quiet her cynics.
Pettis had an alternate opportunity to turn into "the man" Saturday night at UFC 185 when he confronted a correspondingly talented however endlessly lower-profile warrior in Brazilian Rafael dos Anjos, himself a victor in eight of his last nine.
Esparza had a chance to increase a stronger toehold in the MMA cognizance when she shielded her cinch surprisingly, against a sure adversary in Poland's Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
These two title battles were just the start of a really stacked card in Dallas. What's more as dependably, the last detail lines just uncover to such an extent. Here are the genuine victors and failures from UFC 185.
For the strict minded among us, full results show up toward the end of the slideshow.
