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Opinion: UFC Sacramento and the virtue of ‘next’

It’s hard to write a column with a stringent, strong narrative about Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 155 card in Sacramento. It wasn’t without its high peaks and pops, especially for local stars. At the same time, it was woefully emblematic of a modern Ultimate Fighting Championship-throwaway card. In years prior, any given UFC card oriented us toward whatever was next, be it a pay-per-view or a cable television offering and we wouldn’t have got a lineup like this. Consequently, we wouldn’t have ended up with such a baffling, schizoid card that we received.

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It’s not even necessarily that UFC Fight Night 155 was bad per se.