I still don't believe you believe that. But if you do, then we see things wildly differently. Arman/Charles was as good as MMA gets, between two of the highest level fighters you could ask for. If you are just looking for finishes alone, and that's all you care about, then there are a lot of regional scene shows you would think were better than UFC 300. Tell me one moment from the PFL card that made you feel even a fraction of what you should have felt at the end of that Max/Justin fight.
Aljo/Kattar was the only dud of the night.
Yeh, I never said PFL was higher level fights. It wasn't. I'm just saying it was more exciting to me overall, as an event.
I wouldn't say Arman/Oli was as good as it gets for MMA. Wasn't that much exchanging on the feet. And Oli isn't some wizard off his back like the commentators were trying to make out. Most of his subs either start standing or from him on top. Gamrot/Armen was a way better fight to me that showed all of what MMA can be. This was just one dude holding down another that wasn't that great off his back.
And yeh, the end of Max/Justin was ball tingling good, but it was 1 insane 10 second moment in a 5 round fight that only really had a handful decent ones. I expected more out of that.
Andrade/Marina was fun when Andrade stopped standing right at Marina's range and letting her pot shot her, but then she did that once in the fight, and won with a bit of LNP.
And a lot of the finishes we did get sorta just happened with not a ton of buildup. Figgy and Cody weren't doing a whole lot on the feet, and then Figgy just gets him down and ends it.
Lopes KOing was great, but we hardly got a fight there. Even Alex and Hill had barely gotten going before a big shot lands and it was over. Hill got like 2 punches off. Not to say that Impa and Polizzi are incredible and exciting fighters, but that main event was way more fun than 300's.
To be clear, I'm not saying any of the fights were shit, other than the Aljo one. They were still exciting enough. I just don't think they were necessarily more exciting than what PFL served up.
Like, somehow PFL had a Mads Burnell fight and it was awesome. First time I've seen one of his fights that didn't bore me to death. Like, they're normally worse than Aljo/Kattar.
