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We'll get to that epic main event soon. I promise. That's where the true focus needs to be, because on Saturday night, if only for a moment, sports came back—MMA came back!—to give us fans a hard-earned opportunity to forget our troubles and enjoy something.
But every article written right now is burying the lede if the lede isn't the coronavirus pandemic. On this front, UFC officials said and did what they had to in order to stage UFC 249 at a crowdless VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in the heart of northwest Florida.