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Editorial: New year’s fight resolutions - UFC Flyweight edition

This one’s easy: keep it around. This isn’t like cool music, where a relationship among artists runs it natural course. These are the world’s most elite flyweight fighters, and they have to question their own job security so that what — Mark Wahlberg can get a down payment on his next American tragedy-based movie of the week?

I didn’t want to start this resolution on a sour note, but when we’re talking about flyweights, I’m not fond of the demand that’s set upon them. Flyweights have to be highly technical, move at a breakneck pace, fight elite competition night in and night out, and they have to do it all while upping the ante on audience entertainment.