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Ready or not, we’re back. The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday night brought us the first, and by far the most loaded, of three events in the span of eight days from Jacksonville, Florida.
UFC 249 marked the return of major MMA, and in many ways the return of spectator sports in general. That much is obvious from the number of major league athletes from other sports whose tweets about UFC 249 appeared on screen during the broadcast, to say nothing of the fact that the President of the United States introduced the event—certainly, that had something to do with the UFC’s long history and chummy relationship with Mr.