US EditionTopuria on Stadium Show in Spain: ‘I’d Have to Fight at 4 in the Morning’
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The UFC is clear: sooner or later, they will land in Spain. Arriving in our country and continuing to spot unexplored locations to date on the map is one of the priority objectives of the world's largest MMA promoter and its 'boss', Dana White. This is what the US has made clear in the run-up to the biggest event of the year: UFC 317, at the International Fight Week, with the Topuria (16-0) vs. Oliveira (35-10) as 'main event'.wf_cms.rss.read_mo…
Topuria on stadium show in Spain: ‘I’d have to fight at 4 in the morning’
Photo by Angel Martinez/Getty Images The UFC 317 headliner was told any event held in Spain would have to go down in the middle of the night to accommodate U.S. time zones. The UFC makes a big deal of being an international promotion, but when push comes to shove they still value their U.S. market over all else. Case in point: every pay-per-view event starts at 10 p.m. ET, and championship belts are almost exclusively defended on pay-per-views. …
In 2024 it seemed done, after the coronation of Ilia Topuria as champion of the featherweight. From 2025 it could not pass, but after almost half a year, we still have no concrete news of a possible numbered event of the UFC in Spain, a country that awaits with open arms the arrival of the best mixed martial arts of the planet. National promoters like WOW or WAR are doing a great job to expand the discipline at local level, but all yearned to se…
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