What really mattered at UFC on ESPN+ 7 in St. Petersburg on Saturday? Here’s a thing or five. 1. The big guy’s still got it – in brief bursts The way Aleksei Oleinik talked before this fight, one got the sense that he had not gone ahead and planned himself a victory party. He came in as a late replacement and a roughly 2-1 underdog, and it’s surprising that the odds didn’t ratchet up further after his recollections of being unable to do anything at all to Alistair Overeem in the gym.
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