The division the UFC all but killed produced one of the greatest fights in company history Saturday night. Over the course of 2018 and 2019, the UFC essentially traded away former longtime champion Demetrious Johnson to ONE Championship, cut a slew of 125 pounders from the roster, and let titleholder Henry Cejudo go up a weight class, win the bantamweight belt, and vacate the flyweight crown. Who could have predicted at the start of the year, with the belt vacant and the division seeming to be on death’s door, the company’s pay-per-view slate would end with a pair of flyweights throwing down in what was highly likely the men’s “Fight of the Year”?
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