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All of the below event #s are missing from the scrape:

225
207
204
198
196

It's 2 FX, 2 FUEL, and 1 FOX card.

It would be pretty useful indicator of fighter/fight importance. And, could be used to calculate fighters' PPV sales impact.

For this snippet of code:

# Eliminate all championship tags from strings within variables 
# FighterA, FighterB, and Belt.
id <- which(colnames(bouts) %in% c("FighterA", "FighterB", "Belt"))
bouts[, id] <- lapply(
  bouts[, id], function(x) 
    gsub(" \\(Fighter)| \\(c)| \\(ic)| \\(UFC Champion)| \\(Pride Champion)", 
         "", x, ignore.case = TRUE))

This isn't an issue (not sure where else to post), but I think the (c) tag can be useful as it's the only data we have to determine who went into the fight as champion. This can then be turned into defining the potential difference between a title defense vs a title fight win.

I personally commented this out. I then wrote to an .xls file, moved the (c) to their own column, and can now also track who the champions were entering the fight.

Again, not sure if I should open up new issues as this isn't related any coding error, but there are issues with names.

As would be expected with a user contributed site like wikipedia, names are typed differently from time to time.

Georges St-Pierre vs Georges St. Pierre.
James Te Huna vs James Te-Huna

I'm manually going through and making changes now, but I don't know if this is of any use to the actual scrape itself.