It’s the only weight class in which the UFC has a champion but no contenders, no rankings, effectively no division. It’s also the weight class in which even the all-female fight promotion Invicta FC has a hard time booking bouts. In Bellator, where women’s MMA has seen a fairly recent resurgence, the division saw a total of eight bouts in 2017 – the most of any major fight promotion – even if many of them ended up as online prelims or unaired “postlims,” taking place after the evening’s main event. So what’s the problem with women’s featherweight? Why is the division that once played host to marquee bouts like Cris Cyborg vs
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