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Usman vs. Burns Preview: Is UFC 258’s co-main event too much, too soon for Maycee Barber?

I’ll cut the UFC some slack. UFC 258 looked like a solid card about a month ago. Then it lost Chris Weidman vs. Uriah Hall and Jimmie Rivera vs. Pedro Munhoz and was unable to fill the holes those left on the main card, leaving the card wanting. Outside of the title fight – a fine PPV headliner, but not a great one – everything else feels underwhelming. Maycee Barber and Alexa Grasso is a perfectly fine contest, but what the hell is it doing as the co-main event? The rest of the contests would be alright on a PPV main card if it had something else around it to beef it up… like Weidman vs.