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A recent trend in the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been the voluntary vacating of titles. It isn’t like the former champions are just sick of fighting and up and leave, but there’s no denying that it has become a movement of late. For instance, voluntary vacating of UFC titles—either moving to a different division or retirement—in the 2010s resulted in a total of two vacations, both courtesy of Georges St.