Ever since Dana White has announced that UFC will be hosting its show on an island the excitement among the fans has been on its peak. And to top that, UFC has announced four fight cards that are stacked with guaranteed barn burners.
Recently, Dana White gave a taste to the fight fans of what Fight Island is going to be. White shared a picture of a UFC ring on the beach of Yas Islan. As per earlier reports, this ring on the beach will be used as the training ring and the facility will have another ring to host the fights.
Dana White spills details on the Ultimate Fighter
Fight Island is located in Abu Dhabi and it presents a solution to allows the foreign UFC fighters to compete inside the octagon. A huge chunk of UFC is filled with foreign fighters and Dana White will run out of good fights without them.
Fight Island baby!!! #YasIsland pic.twitter.com/LTe8Jlgvgv
— danawhite (@danawhite) June 28, 2020
Dana White has a lot in store for the UFC fans
This will allow UFC to book huge fights such as Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo, Israel Adesanya vs Paulo Costa, Robert Whittaker vs Darren Till, and many more. It’s needless to say that, fight island will also allow UFC to schedule Justin Gaethje vs Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Besides that, it’s very much possible that Conor McGregor might fight Yas Island.
Dana White announces huge fights for the fight island
We will kick things off on the fight island with the star-studded PPV, which features three major title fights. Kamaru Usman will defend the welterweight title against Gilbert Burns. Max Holloway will try to regain his featherweight throne against Alexander Volkanovski. And Petr Yan will take on UFC legend, Jose Aldo for the vacant bantamweight title.
That’s not all as the former middleweight champion, Robert Whittaker will make his long-anticipated octagon return. And he will go up against the rising star of the middleweight division, Darren Till.
Out of all the fights on the fight island, which fight has you excited the most?