World Fight Week space to return with UFC 266 following cancellation in 2020 on account of COVID-19 restrictions
World Fight Week is back.
The annual summer season fight tradition in Las Vegas is back for its ninth installment later this twelve months, following cancellation in 2020 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UFC announced on Saturday evening by technique of press beginning.
The ninth Annual UFC World Fight Week will bewitch place Sept. 21-25, which comprises the 2020 UFC Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony and UFC 266 headlined by Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ortega.
Statements incorporated within the press beginning are as follows:
UFC® this day announced that the ninth Annual UFC World Fight Week™ will bewitch place in Las Vegas from Tuesday, September 21, thru Saturday, September 25, headlined by UFC® 266: VOLKANOVSKI vs. ORTEGA, offered by Modelo. The occasion-filled week will additionally embrace the broken-down 2020 UFC Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony and a two-day, interactive UFC Fan Experience®.The excellent 2020 UFC Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony, offered by Toyo Tires® can be held on Thursday, September 23, and will honor direct achievements and contributions to UFC and the game of Blended Martial Arts.
In addition, on Friday, September 24, and persevering with on Saturday, September 25, followers can be ready to bewitch piece in an easily accessible and fully interactive, free, two-day UFC Fan Experience that can characteristic meet and greets, autograph sessions, and accomplice activations that offer unheard of glean entry to to UFC champions, top-ranked contenders, Corridor of Famers, and other UFC personalities.
Followers from round the sector who converge on Las Vegas for UFC World Fight Week will additionally be ready to revel in ceremonial weigh-ins, press conferences and dwell leisure of a broken-down Fight Week main to the time table’s culminating occasion, UFC® 266: VOLKANOVSKI vs. ORTEGA, on Saturday, September 25, at T-Cellular Enviornment.
The most modern UFC 266 lineup entails:
- Champ Alexander Volkaovski vs. Brian Ortega – for featherweight title
- Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Lauren Murphy – for females’s flyweight title
- Gash Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler – 5-round non-title fight
- Curtis Blaydes vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
- Jessica Andrade vs. Cynthia Calvillo
- Uros Medic vs. Jalin Turner
- Merab Dvalishvilil vs. Marlon Moraes
- Roxanne Modafferi vs. Tatiana Suarez
- Manon Fiorot vs. Mayra Bueno Silva