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'Big Ben' warns the heavyweight division: ‘The tsunami of Rothwell is coming’

LAS VEGAS -- It's not quite a secret that aside from a few exceptions, the names strewn over the UFC's heavyweight landscape look like a snapshot straight out of 2010. With average age of nearly 35 years old, no division's top-10 is more tenured than the big boys. So considering we've seen the same cast of characters trade hands for the better part of the decade, one would expect a certain level of consistency when it comes to rankings.

And for the most part, that consistency existed. Or at least it did until the Great Heavyweight Revival of 2015 barged in like a weather-worn horde, flipped the established order and brought golden era names like Andrei Arlovski and Ben Rothwell back to the forefront with the most bloodthirsty coup imaginable.