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The way UFC 249 has come together amid delays and the global pandemic has meant there hasn’t been the usual level of hype and build for many of the card’s fights. That’s starting to change. Now that we are less than two weeks away from the presumptive return of MMA, attention is turning to the rapidly approaching bouts.