2020 Year in Review: The light heavyweight division

Jan Blachowicz Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC 2020 was a wild year for MMA that feels like it lasted a lifetime. With all the action that took place over the year, it’s hard to remember what took place. This series looks to help out with that, providing an overview on what happened in each weight class, and a look at what we can expect to come in 2021.

Year in Review

The Good

2020 was the best year for the light heavyweight division in years for one simple reason: Jon Jones vacated the belt to move up to heavyweight.

For the better part of a decade, Jones and Daniel Cormier were the twin kings of 205, and while the prolonged reign certainly had its benefits, the division stagnated under the…