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Ranking the Best Fights Scheduled in 2019

If you follow MMA closely, sometimes it's hard to remember that the sport actually involves a sport.

Yes, Virginia, there are fights to be had, many of them involving pretty darn good fighters. And these are cage fights, of course. Not the fights that happen on social media or buses. No, we're talking about good, wholesome, civilized cage fighting.

What we're going to do right now is take a look at the events calendar—UFC and otherwise—and highlight the 10 best scraps on the docket as of Friday. Yes, big fights are in the mix, but so are more under-the-radar matchups.