This past Friday, the PFL held their Road to Dubai event which featured two big time title fights. In the main event, we saw a rematch for the lightweight title between Usman Nurmagomedov (20-0, 1 NC) and Paul Hughes (14-3).

The first fight back in January between these two was incredibly close and I expected to see another really close fight on Friday. We saw an extremely competitive fight that I thought could’ve gone either way. Watching live, I leaned 48-47 Nurmagomedov, but it was incredibly close.

That said, the scorecards at PFL Road to Dubai were not close at all which seemed off to me. Usman Nurmagomedov won 50-45 and a 49-46 on two of the cards. Again, I had Nurmagomedov winning live, but those scores were way off. Nevertheless, the decision is what it is and Nurmagomedov is the

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