From top to bottom, it was the most stacked Fox card yet.
With brutal finishes and lightning-quick submissions providing fodder for the masses, here’s how the MMA community reacted to the happenings on Twitter:
Watching UFC...Help me understand, in a sport where the best man wins and rules seems limited, why wouldn't Nick Newell get a chance?
— Jim Abbott (@jabbottum31) January 27, 2013
Does this even count as violence? Not even John McCain would have been offended by this fight.
— Jonathan Snowden (@mmaencyclopedia) January 27, 2013
Demetrious Johnson is the best 5 round fighter MMA has ever seen.
— EL (@TheTomasRios) January 27, 2013
Got hit in the POP ROCKS
— Dana White (@danawhite) January 27, 2013
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the cage that makes the small dogs looks so small.
— Chuck Mindenhall (@ChuckMindenhall) January 27, 2013
Errr, not sure John McCarthy was a great ref choice here. And that's not a shot at his officiating ability....
— Todd Martin (@ToddMartinMMA) January 27, 2013
Tired, slow, beat up / silver lining on this cloud / TNA is worked. #ufconfox
— 17 Syllables of Pain (@MMAhaiku) January 27, 2013
You can almost hear Rampage's free-agent value plummeting.
— Dann Stupp (@MMAjunkieDann) January 27, 2013
Body kick knockout / a brand new highlight reel knee / what's he gotta do? #ufconfox
— 17 Syllables of Pain (@MMAhaiku) January 27, 2013
They're drug testing tonight, right? I have a feeling Cerrone's urine sample is going to have a pink tint after that live shot.
— Dann Stupp (@MMAjunkieDann) January 27, 2013
Pettis =AMAZING!!!! Ok I'm sold
— Dana White (@danawhite) January 27, 2013
Koch just walked back to his locker room. It looks the Koch Head alien from his tattoo has taken up residence in his eye socket. Oof.
— Jordan Breen (@jordanbreen) January 27, 2013
calm down yall it's just blood, everyone drinks it
— Chris Nelson (@3amMMA) January 27, 2013
I suspect FOX isn't in love with that blood, but I sure am.
— Luke Thomas (@SBNLukeThomas) January 27, 2013
Unlike many fighters, T.J. Grant has actually earned the right to tattoo something ridiculous on his forearms.
— Dann Stupp (@MMAjunkieDann) January 27, 2013
Eric Koch looks like a blank create-a-fighter that nobody had any time to customize
— smoogy (@smoogymma) January 27, 2013
With Chael's John Holmes reference, and now Guida's mustache, feel like we're in the sordid '70s.
— Chuck Mindenhall (@ChuckMindenhall) January 27, 2013
I'll admit it; just looking at Guida makes me wish I had a net or a tranquilizer gun.
— ♥Yael Grauer♥ (@yaelwrites) January 26, 2013
Officer down.
— TJ De Santis (@TJDeSantis) January 26, 2013
i wonder if they will let Russow fight with his shirt on?
— E. Casey Leydon(@ekc) January 26, 2013