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No matter how we may try to run from them, life's inevitabilities are, well, just that: inevitable. Nothing lasts forever, all good things must come to an end, we're all born to die, all those maxims. In July, when it became official that Zuffa had sold the Ultimate Fighting Championship to talent agency WME-IMG and a group of investors, it was obvious the sport had changed forever and with the new regime taking over in 2017, those changes were not far away.