In the main event of this tripleheader, a score will be settled when heated rivals Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal meet again with Usman’s UFC welterweight title on the line.
Tickets for UFC 261 were snatched up quickly and as UFC President Dana White predicted were completely sold out in minutes, making it the fastest in the promotion’s history.
UFC 261 at VyStar Veteran’s Memorial Arena, in Jacksonville, Florida was the quickest sellout in Combat Sports History.
So the welterweight title will be up for grabs once again this weekend. But the UFC’s latest PPV offering will come with a new wrinkle: fans are back. That’s right, UFC 261 is set to commence on Saturday night in Jacksonville, Florida in front of 15,000 fans from the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. Kamaru Usman will look to extend his streak of dominance over the 170-pound division in a rematch against Jorge Masvidal.
UFC president Dana White stuck by his word that he would not have fans back in the building for fights unless it was opened up to a full capacity crowd. The organization has already scheduled its next PPV for Houston and has designs for its June event for Arizona. Plus, Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor are set to throw down in Las Vegas in front of a packed house at the T-Mobile Arena in July. So it seems we’re close to leaving the UFC Apex facility behind for the foreseeable future.
Usman is on one of the most dominant runs in recent memory for the welterweight division. He’s beaten everyone put in front of him by UFC brass, and his current run of wins over Tyron Woodley, Colby Covington, Masvidal, and Gilbert Burns stands out as especially impressive. A second win over “Gamebred” on Saturday could be the icing on the cake for a fighter who seems destined to go down as one of the pound-for-pound best the sport has seen.
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – JULY 09: A general view of the Octagon and UFC championship belt at Yas Beach ahead of the UFC Fight Island series of events on July 09, 2020, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
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