10 Things We Learned From UFC Fight Night 46

8. Cathal Pendred Has Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQUF5wObS0 It helps when you're fighting in your home country in front of a rabid crowd cheering and chanting for you , but Cathal Pendered weathered a serious storm in the first round of his bout at UFC FIght Night: McGregor vs. Brandao in Dublin. He was almost finished multiple times by opponent Mike King, caught in an arm bar, caught in a choke - but he made it out, and got himself to the second round. From that point, the tide changed, and Pendred choked MIke King unconscious as the crowd roared, finishing the bout by way of rear naked choke. Dan Hardy summed it up by saying, in the octagon after the fight, that "If ever there was a comeback, that was it" - and he was absolutely correct. This was an exciting fight and it proves that, despite being eliminated on The Ultimate Fighter (where he was a favourite), Pendred has a place in the UFC.