The UFC's flyweights are hot again - is Lone'er Kavanagh the next star?

The fighting life of a UFC flyweight was once an unenvied one. Constant uncertainty over the future of the division, a lack of big pay-per-view interest and an unfortunate routine of far too many fighters getting cut for the weight class to sustain itself were just some of the problems that characterised the modern era. UFC president Dana White put it in simple terms, saying after Demetrious Johnson 's UFC exit in 2018 that "people didn't care" about the flyweights.