With the UFC’s first two pay-per-view events of the year bogged down by a bevy decisions, the organization’s third major card of 2014 made history in a much more positive manner. For the first time since April 19, 2008 (a span of 2,157 days), a new champion was crowned in the UFC welterweight division. In the absence of former titleholder Georges St-Pierre, Johny Hendricks (16-2 MMA, 11-2 UFC) defeated Robbie Lawler (22-10 MMA, 7-4 UFC) by unanimous decision in Saturday’s UFC 171 pay-per-view headliner at Dallas’ American Airlines Center
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