The newly minted featherweight division has some problems. The first of them is an issue of title legitimacy, something the UFC’s inaugural effort on February 11th did little to settle. Germaine de Randamie didn’t just walk away with the featherweight title at UFC 208, but with a new controversy as well. Had the ref taken points for fouls, the fight could easily have been scored a draw.
And that’s left the UFC in a bit of a strange conundrum, play back a fight that few viewers were invested in the first time around in order to get a more definitive answer.