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Last week saw an exceptionally rare, nearly unique matchup in the history of MMA, a fascinating fight pitting two extremes against one another. Of course, realizing this required a degree of imagination and abstraction. It's very easy to look at A.J. McKee going up to lightweight to face Spike Carlyle as a heavily favored martial artist facing a tough but less skilled veteran, but to do that would be to miss seeing the fight for what it really was.