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Two heavyweights are about to fight, and both of them are good, skillful strikers.
Before we move ahead with the rest of this article, I’d like you to pause and reconsider that first sentence. Because when, I ask you, is the last time we were able to say that?
Sometimes, heavyweight MMA feels like a hackneyed vaudeville act. We all know, based on personal interactions, that a man’s size has little correlation with his aptitude or intelligence, and yet here they are, the heavyweights, ever ready to set beefy boys back a hundred years with a single clash of clumsy punches.