Three more sleeps separate American UFC fans from UFC 259, but UFC president Dana White is doing all he can to increase the fight-week hype levels.
Wednesday, White released the pay-per-view’s cold open video, which pins champion vs. champion as UFC light heavyweight champion [autotag]Jan Blachowicz[/autotag] fights UFC middleweight champion [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] on Saturday.
The video, with actor and regular UFC voice-over narrator Ron Perlman, features promotion for the main event between Blachowicz (27-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) and Adesanya (20-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC), the co-main event between UFC women’s double champion Amanda Nunes (20-4 MMA, 13-1 UFC) and Megan Anderson (10-4 MMA, 3-2 UFC), as well as the third title fight between UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan (15-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) and Aljamain Sterling (19-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC).
Check out the UFC 259 cold open video below:
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT i can't wait pic.twitter.com/guBCIZH4OC
— danawhite (@danawhite) March 3, 2021
UFC 259 takes place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+
The full UFC 259 fight card is available below. You can also join us for live on-site round-by-round coverage on the MMA Junkie homepage Saturday.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
- Champ Jan Blachowicz vs. Israel Adesanya – for light heavyweight title
- Champ Amanda Nunes vs. Megan Anderson – for women’s featherweight title
- Champ Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling – for bantamweight title
- Drew Dober vs. Islam Makhachev
- Aleksandar Rakic vs. Thiago Santos
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
- Dominick Cruz vs. Casey Kenney
- Kyler Phillips vs. Song Yadong
- Askar Askarov vs. Joseph Benavidez
- Amanda Lemos vs. Livinha Souza
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 6 p.m. ET)
- Tim Elliott vs. Jordan Espinosa
- Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Carlos Ulberg
- Sean Brady vs. Jake Matthews
- Rogerio Bontorin vs. Kai Kara-France
- Aalon Cruz vs. Uros Medic
- Mario Bautista vs. Trevin Jones