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In past articles, I’ve described how underwhelming I found UFC 267’s main event between Glover Teixeira and Jan Blachowicz. Bellator 268’s co-main between Corey Anderson and Ryan Bader was more intriguing, as was UFC 267’s own co-main between Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen, a much higher-caliber matchup between two men very much in their physical primes, which also ended up being one of the best fights of 2021.