If you missed the end of Dan Hooker vs Marc Diakiese, you weren’t alone.
Those of you who stayed up until ridiculous o’clock in the morning for Dan Hooker vs Marc Diakiese live may have missed its conclusion.
Not for the first time, a broadcasting glitch ruined what would have been a hugely entertaining moment for fans tuning in at home. Earlier in the year, Matt Brown’s knockout of the year contender against Diego Sanchez was missed by the masses. Just as ‘the Immortal’ landed that devastating elbow from the depths of hell, the stream cut to an empty press room.
Remarkably, whatever kinks in the system that caused that embarrassing error don’t appear to have been worked out. For the UFC’s 2017 closer, one of the few finishes on a largely mediocre card was ruined for a lot of people.
How many of you had your legal Fight Pass PPV stream go out before the Hooker-Diakiese ending? #UFC219
— Mookie Alexander (@mookiealexander) December 31, 2017
The truth is, anyone who had been watching the card from the very beginning was dying to see any finish.
After Tim Elliott sunk in that Anaconda Choke on Mark de la Rosa in the very first fight, fans endured six consecutive fights going the distance, including one majority draw. Aside from the strawweight bout between Carla Esparza and Cynthia Calvillo, none of the unanimous decisions before this fight were particularly competitive or exciting.
This fight between two highly-touted prospects didn’t look like it was going to get one either with fans in the arena booing both Diakiese and Hooker after the first two rounds which was void of much meaningful action.
The one thing that would have livened everything up would have been a finish. Hooker got it by sinking in a guillotine in the third round. If you were one of the unlucky sods that didn’t see it, you can check it out below.
https://twitter.com/AhmarSKhan/status/947326482640244736
Talk about timing.
