It’s the End of the U.F.C. as We Know It

Late on Saturday night, Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, delivered an uncharacteristically measured assessment of the evening’s entertainment. The U.F.C. had finally staged U.F.C. 200, a landmark night of mixed martial arts, televised on pay-per-view, which the company had been hyping all year. “Tonight’s fights—y’know,” he said, not very enthusiastically. “We had some great fights, and there were some decent fights.” True, Miesha Tate, the bantamweight champion and one of the company’s biggest stars, had suffered a memorable upset to Amanda Nunes, who stunned her with a battery of punches and then choked her into submission; Tate lost both her championship belt and a good quantity of blood, which dripped from what remained of her nose. But there were relatively few thrilling moments; even White, known for expressions of pugnacious enthusiasm, had to admit that the night was a bit of a letdown.

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