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What is the difference between a flyweight and a bantamweight? Ten pounds and a shot at relevancy.
While fights between top-flyweights, aside from title bouts, are relegated to the preliminaries, such as the recent bout between Alexandre Pantoja and Brandon Moreno buried deep on the UFC Fight Night 129 card, bantamweights historically have a little more prestige and get higher placement on cards.