What we learned from UFC 108

Five things we learned from Saturday night's UFC 108 in Las Vegas:

1. When he fights aggressively, Rashad Evans is terrific.

Watching Evans mix up his wrestling and striking against Thiago Silva, the thought crossed my mind that if he fought this way all the time, Evans, a former UFC light heavyweight champion, could make himself as difficult to deal with as his training partner Georges St. Pierre. That's pretty good.

Evans (14-1-1) confounded Silva (14-2) in rounds one and two. He pushed forward with strikes, moved into the clinch, dropped down for double- and single-leg takedowns. He forced the heavy-hitting Brazilian to react rather than attack, and it worked beautifully. It helped that Silva only moved straight back and refused to change angles or step to the side. But that was due more to Evans' speed, which is too much for most light heavyweights, especially when he refuses to make himself one dimensional. Read More