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Finding a New Trojan Horse

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“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?”

UFC 225 offered fight heads a frontrunner for “Fight of the Year” in the form of an epic 25-minute dust-up between Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero. Whittaker-Romero 2 offered much of what I watch this sport for: momentum swings, lots of offense and the kind of story-within-a-fight that really only happens in five-round bouts.