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Making Middleweight Great Again

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There’s not much that’s particularly interesting to say about the UFC 230 main event on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Defending heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier did exactly what he does best and what basically everyone expected him to do: He took down beloved-but-overmatched contender Derrick Lewis with minimal resistance and proceeded with workmanlike indifference to get the submission finish.