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For Vitor Belfort, One of UFC's Longest, Strangest Careers Finally Nears Its End

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Vitor Belfort has one fight left on his UFC contract, and The Phenom says he wants to fight it out.

After more than 20 years as one of MMA’s most recognizable and controversial faces, he’s earned that right, though the impression left by Belfort’s first-round TKO loss to Kelvin Gastelum at Saturday’s Fight Night 106 was that the end can’t come soon enough.

Things haven’t been the same for Belfort for a good while now.

His trademark hand speed and aggressive punching flurries flashed around the edges, but nearly all this fight’s three minutes, 52 seconds belonged to Gastelum.