UFC on ABC? First match of 2021 expected to air on community tv

UFC on ABC? First match of 2021 expected to air on community tv

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BROOKLYN, NY – APRIL 04: UFC President Dana White (L) talks with Max Holloway all the way by the UFC 223 Press Convention on the Tune Corridor of Williamsburg on April 4, 2018 in Brooklyn, Contemporary York. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC by technique of Getty Photography

Since inviting to ESPN from Fox, UFC events bear essentially been watchable by technique of the ESPN+ streaming provider. That received’t be the case to delivery in 2021.

In maintaining with MMA Junkie, the UFC’s January 16 Wrestle Evening match will air on the ABC community in its put of any ESPN channels or the ESPN+ streaming provider. No explanation for why right here’s occurring become given. Nonetheless hypothesis has already begun surrounding exactly what the explanations could well be.

Whether or no longer or no longer the fragment of the cardboard proven on ABC will factual be the foremost card or the total expose remains to make certain. Historically, the UFC splits up the platforms for every fragment of the cardboard from the foremost card to prelims to early prelims. Wrestle Nights are ceaselessly factual spoil up between the foremost card and prelims. Therefore, one of the most January 16 match could well soundless be viewed on an ESPN channel.

Headlining the first-ever UFC match on ABC could be broken-down UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway vs. rising contender Calvin Kattar. The fight could be Holloway’s first non-title tilt since UFC 199 in 2016 when he earned a unanimous resolution victory over Ricardo Lamas. For Kattar, this could well also additionally be his third UFC foremost match.

In complete, the cardboard currently has a 13 fight lineup because it kicks off a stretch of three Wrestle Island events ending with the rematch between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor.

The paunchy card’s lineup could well additionally be viewed below. The bout expose has yet to be formally put.

  • Featherweight – 145lbs: Max Holloway vs. Calvin Kattar
  • Middleweight – 185lbs: Omari Akhmedov vs. Tom Breese
  • Welterweight – 170lbs: David Zawada vs. Ramazan Emeev
  • Bantamweight – 135lbs: Ricky Simon vs. Brian Kelleher
  • Heavyweight – 207-265lbs: Justin Tafa vs. Carlos Felipe
  • Featherweight: Austin Lingo vs. Jacob Kilburn
  • Middleweight: Punahele Soriano vs. Duško Todorovi?
  • Bantamweight: Julianna Peña vs. Sara McMann
  • Bantamweight: Bethe Correia vs. Wu Yanan
  • Middleweight: Rodolfo Vieira vs. Anthony Hernandez
  • Featherweight: Nik Lentz vs. Mike Grundy
  • Welterweight: Warlley Alves vs. Christian Aguilera
  • Welterweight: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Li Jingliang

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