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Considering that women only debuted in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2013 and have been evolving by leaps and bounds ever since, one should expect startling changes. Despite this, I doubt anyone could have predicted in 2016 that the women’s bantamweight division—which Ronda Rousey glamourized and was populated by stars in their primes like Holly Holm, Miesha Tate, Amanda Nunes and, at the time, Valentina Shevchenko—would be a relative wasteland by 2022 and by far the weakest of the UFC’s three full women’s weight classes.