What happened tonight between Sterling and Yan was unfortunate, but that's the rule. If the title didn't change hands by DQ, you would see more champions (cough cough Jones) use illegal strikes on purpose to keep their title if they were losing. Hopefully a rematch will happen as soon as Sterling is no longer concussed. Can't believe Yan did that after the referee warned him.
Only person who can challenge Nunes at this point is Shevchenko, but the latter seems content with cleaning out her division. And she might not want to fight Nunes since they've already done it twice.
Blachowicz fought well, had him winning rounds 2, 4, and 5. Those takedowns were clutch and I felt Rogan didn't give him enough credit for his striking as he barely said anything when he landed clean on Adesanya.
The prelims were great, lots of fun fights and finishes.
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