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On paper, UFC Fight Night 197 was a typical fight night offering. It had an outstanding main event between former champion and No. 2 UFC featherweight Max Holloway against another top contender and elite striker in Yair Rodriguez. The rest — on paper — was mostly ho-hum. There was a dreadful co-main in an era full of them, a perplexing main card fight in Felicia Spencer vs.