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Opinion: Our True Light Heavyweight King

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I had an interesting choice of topics to write about this week. UFC Fight Night 215—already dreadful with its original marquee attraction intact—devolved into one of the worst shows in company history when Derrick Lewis came down with an illness, resulting in his headliner opposite Sergey Spivak being scrapped. The new Kennedy Nzechukwu-Ion Cutelaba main event featured two men who were not ranked in the Top 15 within the historically weak lightweight division.