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The Ultimate Fighting Championship has its first pay-per-view card of 2017 on Saturday, and on top of that, the promotion is going to crown its first women's featherweight champion. That hardly means the week entirely belongs to the UFC, though.
It was nothing the promotion could help, nothing it had a say in, but Bellator MMA's future became a talking point this week when parent company Viacom revealed that in early 2018, Bellator's television partner, Spike, would be re-branded as the Paramount Network.