Opinion: The Ghosts of Pay-Per-Views Past

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It's Super Bowl week. In the past, that meant the Ultimate Fighting Championship would be rolling out some of its biggest stars this weekend. In the present, the UFC's biggest stars on Super Bowl weekend are ghosts, just memories in pronouncements from Dana White.

This Saturday, in Super Bowl 51's host city of Houston, the UFC will indeed have an event, but even with the return of “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung and how truly exciting that is, his headliner against Dennis Bermudez and the card…