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UFC Announces Chicago Event With Mixed Reactions From Fans

A night full of epic fights is promised by the UFC with the event in Chicago, and tickets go on sale this Friday. The promotional poster...

One user labels it as “low skill boring rubbish” and proposed that female fights should be held on separate cards; another said, “No one wants to see this,” while that opinion stood far from unanimous. This side-track conversation led us into a little UFC politics: some rumbles around Khamzat Chimaev fighting Dricus Du Plessis had surfaced and maybe got scratched; then there were rankings and where people feel fighters should be placed: for example, somebody jokingly mentioned if So Andrade still top 5. The nastier moments were stained with a few nostalgic protests for the loss of that ‘festive feeling surrounding UFC events’, implying the promotion might have lost some glitter.

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