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UFC 223 was supposed to bring clarity to the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s lightweight division. At long last, Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov were going to fight, bringing a 10 or 25-fight win streak to an end and settling the question of who is the best 155-pound fighter on the planet in the process.