Jan Blachowicz has been to the mountaintop and now he’s in the middle of a precipitous fall.

May 2022. That’s the last time Blachowicz left the octagon with his hand raised. And that bout ended in opponent Aleksandar Rakic being felled by an injury in the third round. For the last time Blachowicz had a truly definitive victory, you have to go further back to March 2021, when he put on an incredible performance to defend his light heavyweight title against Israel Adesanya and hand “The Last Stylebender” his first-ever loss in MMA.

Now 43, Blachowicz is in a career-worst slump, with two losses and two draws heading into his co-main event bout wit