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The most recent Ultimate Fighting Championship card this past weekend, headlined by Glover Teixeira and Thiago Santos, provided us with not one, but two examples of the same inspiring phenomenon. Two men in their early forties, with badly withered physical abilities, including slow, malfunctioning reactions and weak, crumbling chins, defeated much stronger, faster, and younger opponents, foes who, on a purely physical level, should have wiped the floor with them.