After his back-to-back spectacular first-round knockouts over Jimmie Rivera and Aljamain Sterling, Marlon Moraes rocketed toward the top of the UFC bantamweight division.

There are some who feel that Moraes deserves to fight the winner of the scheduled UFC 227 bout between bantamweight champ T.J. Dillashaw and former titleholder Cody Garbrandt.

Moraes, after all, is 3-1 in the UFC, and the former World Series of Fighting champ is 16-1 in his past 17 fights.

But it’s that one loss in...

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