UFC 259 will go down as one of the year's most entertaining fight cards.
The event, which emanated from Las Vegas on Saturday night, was headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between champion Jan Blachowicz and challenger Israel Adesanya, who holds the promotion's middleweight title.
Had Adesanya won this fight, he would have become just the fifth fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two divisions simultaneously. However, Blachowicz outfought Adesanya to a unanimous-decision win, sending him back down to middleweight with nothing to show for his light heavyweight sojourn.
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