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2020 was a wild year for MMA, that feels like it lasted a lifetime. With all the action that took place over the year, it’s hard to remember what took place. This series looks to help out with that, providing an overview on what happened in each weight class, and a look at what we can expect to come in 2021.
Year in Review
The Good
There’s a good case to be made that strawweight is the marquee division in women’s MMA, and early on in 2020, that certainly looked to be the case. In March, UFC champion Weili Zhang and former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk put on what can only be described as the single greatest fight in women’s history and maybe the greatest fight ever, period. For 25 minutes, the two women went hammer and tongs with one another, actually