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The Art of Fighting in the UFC Has Changed. Here's How.

Since July 2014, I've written 110 previews of UFC events. In that time, I've seen every single fight the promotion has put on and thousands more besides in order to do the necessary film study to write my guides.

Just two UFC events in that period have escaped my keyboard, the godawful UFC Fight Night in Albany last year headlined by Derrick Lewis and Shamil Abdurakhimov and the fun one where the diminutive John Lineker brutalized Michael McDonald and Tony Ferguson and Lando Vannata put on a barnburner for the ages.

There have been a grand total of 112 UFC events since that first one I previewed, from the epic battle between Matt Brown and Robbie Lawler in San Jose to the fun scrap that Artem Lobov and Cub Swanson put on last Saturday.