Dana White and the UFC have done a fantastic job creating their ‘Fight Island’ concept where International fighters can compete with all the precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UFC continues tonight with UFC 253 featuring Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa, which is the first title fight featuring two unbeaten fighters since Rashad Evans and Lyoto Machida at UFC 98
We have an absolutely stacked card tonight and this should be the best UFC fight card of the year, below is everything you need to know to follow the action tonight.
UFC 253
Israel Adesanya (-176) vs. Paulo Costa (+145)
- Date: Saturday, September 26
- Location: Flash Forum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Prelims: 8:00 pm ET
- Main Card: 10:00 pm ET
- Live Stream: ESPN+ (Sign Up Now)
UFC 251 fight card
Main Card (10 PM ET, ESPN+)
- Israel Adesanya (c) vs. Paulo Costa for Adesanya’s Middleweight title
- Dominick Reyes vs. Jan Błachowicz for vacant Light Heavyweight title
- Kai Kara-France vs. Brandon Royval; Flyweight
- Ketlen Vieira vs. Sijara Eubanks; Women’s Bantamweight
- Hakeem Dawodu vs. Zubaira Tukhugov; Featherweight
- Prelims (8 PM ET, ESPN+)
- Brad Riddell vs. Alex Da Silva; Lightweight
- Diego Sanchez vs. Jake Matthews; Welterweight
- Shane Young vs. Ľudovít Klein; Featherweight
- William Knight vs. Aleksa Camur; Light Heavyweight
- Juan Espino vs. Jeff Hughes; Heavyweight
- Khadis Ibragimov vs. Danilo Marques; Light Heavyweight
UFC Exclusively on ESPN+
ESPN is the exclusive destination for UFC and all of its pay-per-view events, meaning that you will have to have an ESPN+ subscription as well as purchase the PPV event. The fight alone is $64.99 but if you buy the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ bundle and the fight it costs $84.98, which is savings of over 25%.
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