The UFC made good on the promotion’s promise to return to live action ahead of other U.S. sports, and the card had quite the impact on the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie rankings. In the main event of this past weekend’s UFC 249, Justin Gaethje (22-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) scored a fifth-round stoppage of an incredibly game Tony Ferguson (25-4 MMA, 15-2 UFC) to claim an interim lightweight title and set up a unification bout with undefeated champ Khabib Nurmagomedov (28-0 MMA, 12-0 UFC) later this year
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