The nice thing about the relatively quiet crowd at the Saitama Super Arena is it gives us a chance to appreciate those intimate moments during a five-round heavyweight main event. Actually, maybe “nice” is the wrong word for it. Because when two big guys like Josh Barnett (34-7 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Roy Nelson (20-12 MMA, 7-8 UFC) are wading into each other with elbows and uppercuts and knees up against the fence, the sound of heavy breathing punctuated by the flat, wet thud of bodily trauma isn’t exactly pleasant, even if it is plenty memorable. Heavyweight fights aren’t known for an overabundance of finesse. If you want the fistic equivalent of fencing foils darting through the air, look to the flyweights
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Did Barnett just remind us what a brutal, bloody good time aging heavyweights can be? – MMA Junkie