For all intents and purposes, mixed martial arts didn’t truly pivot into the 2010s until forced by an unfortunate series of events in late 2013. Sure, the sport’s biggest promotion, the UFC, made a game-changing move to network television in late 2011, which played a major role in marking MMA as something closer to a mainstream sports property than the Wild West enterprise it had so long been. Through the first several years of the decade, things continued much as they had over the second half of the aughts
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