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The 5 biggest MMA questions heading into 2021

In the most normal of years, predicting what’s going to happen in the world of MMA is a fool’s errand. By March of this year, it was obvious that even the broadest prognostications were out the window as the entire world was forced to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

With that said, let’s look ahead to 2021 not with assumptions, but with questions that could give us some idea of what to expect in the next 12 months.

Here are five of the biggest questions in the MMA world to keep an eye on.

UFC 254: Khabib v Gaethje
Khabib Nurmagomedov
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The status of the greatest lightweight ever leads our pressing questions not just because of its magnitude, but because it sounds like we’ll get an answer sooner rather than later.