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Serious damage, but not to Ortega's title hopes

TORONTO - Inside the Los Angeles-area garage where he dissects his fights, analyzes his life and breaks down future opponents, Brian Ortega has hung the trunks he's worn in previous mixed martial arts battles.

Some are spotless, others are blood spattered, but Ortega takes time to glance at them when he's inside the spot he calls "the dungeon," to ponder what those bouts taught him.

What he'll do with the blue pair he wore in his first UFC title fight Saturday night at UFC 231 is unknown, as is his takeaway after Ortega

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