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UFC Belgrade wrap: Medic delivers a 30-second homecoming, Stirling stops Blachowicz, and the card finished almost everything

Twelve finishes in fourteen fights. A Serbian headliner who needed half a minute. An undefeated New Zealander who just ended a former champion’s night in one round. The promotion’s first walk into Belgrade could not have been scripted more cleanly if the matchmakers had written the endings themselves.

By Andrew Weissmann
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