If you want to know what’s going on in the UFC’s light heavyweight division, look no further than Saturday night’s rematch between Jan Blachowicz and Jimi Manuwa.

I don’t mean just the fight itself, either. I mean the circumstances around it, the reality and the expectations, plus the fact that it happened at all.

If you can name a less anticipated rematch, I’d love to hear it. If you admit that you totally had forgotten these two already fought once, I’d readily forgive you. If you tell me you expected the second meeting at UFC Fight Night 127 to be anywhere near this much fun, I simply won’t believe you.

This is the 205-pound class in a nutshell right now. With former champ Jon Jones still waiting to see how long he’ll be suspended, and current champ Daniel Cormier gearing up for a title shot at heavyweight, the whole division feels like it’s on pause, awaiting better ideas.

But in the meantime, hey, guys have to eat and fight cards need to be filled out, so sure, why not see if Manuwa (17-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) and Blachowicz (22-7 MMA, 5-4 UFC) want to do it again?

Manuwa might have put it best. Before the fight, he admitted that a rematch didn’t “really make sense,” especially considering the rankings.

“It was a fight where I almost felt I had to take it, because the people I called out said no, and everyone else was fighting,” Manuwa told MMAjunkie.

And yep, that says it all. Manuwa was here because he’s a Londoner, and you’re not going to not have him fight when you visit The O2.

Blachowicz was there because he wasn’t busy, and because he picked up the phone when it rang and said yes when the UFC asked him.

We had no right to expect a good fight to come of that. With several near knockouts before Blachowicz evened the score via unanimous decision, this was a wild, bloody good time, and an entirely surprising one.

It was two fighters making something out of nothing, giving us a display of sheer will that was so fun it didn’t invite us to think too deeply about what any of it means in the bigger picture.

That’s pretty much a best-case scenario at light heavyweight these days. So don’t be surprised if the UFC pushes its luck and does this fight one more time. You could come up with worse ideas – especially when the division itself seems to have so few ideas at all.

For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 127, check out the UFC Events section of the site.