By Mike Bohn |
March 15, 2021 9: 50 pm
UFC president Dana White made a bombshell announcement Monday when he introduced UFC 261 will happen in entrance of a fat-ability crowd with three championship bouts at the top of the invoice.
The April 24 occasion, which is in a position to budge down at VyStar Conventional’s Memorial Enviornment in Jacksonville, Fla., will price the third title fight triple-header in company history. Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (18-1 MMA, 13-0 UFC) rematches Jorge Masvidal (35-14 MMA, 12-7 UFC) in the main occasion, ladies’s flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko (20-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) locations her belt on the line against Jessica Andrade (21-8 MMA, 12-6 UFC) in the co-main occasion, and strawweight queen Zhang Weili (21-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) returns against Rose Namajunas (9-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC) in the third title bout.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UFC 261 will price the main time in more than 13 months that the promotion will are trying to beget an area, and naturally, that information garnered the dignity of the MMA and sports actions world.
Examine below for the top Twitter reactions to the UFC 261 announcement.
TUF isn’t ineffective, btw. They’ve bandied just a few couple a host of alternate choices for coaches, nonetheless being one of many main events at fat ability used to be more of a precedence at present, sources remark.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) March 16, 2021
So I assume we’re factual doing the thing in which we fake the pandemic is over, huh? Wintry chilly. Been working out mountainous for Brazil. https://t.co/YLmzLnuif4
— Fernanda Prates (@NandaPrates_) March 16, 2021
#UFC261 ceaselessly is the eighth #UFC occasion to luxuriate in three title fights.
thread— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) March 16, 2021
UFC 33 – September 2001
Ortiz/Matyushenko – Ortiz Retained
Pulver/Hallman – Pulver Retained
Menne/Castillo – Inaugural MW championshipUFC 205 – November 2016
McGregor/Alvarez – McGregor #AndNew
Woodley/Thompson – Scheme
Joanna/Karolina – Joanna retained— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) March 16, 2021
UFC 214 – July 2017
DC/Jones 2 – No Contest
Woodley/Maia – Woodley retained
Cyborg/Evinger – Cyborg wins vacant W FW championshipUFC 217 – November 2017
GSP/Bisping – #AndNew
Dillashaw/Garbrandt – And New
Namajunas/Joanna – And New— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) March 16, 2021
UFC245 – December 2019
Usman/Covington – Usman retained
Holloway/Volkanovski – #AndNew
Nunes/GDR – Nunes retainedUFC251 – July 2020
Usman/Masvidal – Usman retained
Volkanovski/Holloway 2 – Volkanovski retained
Yan/Aldo – Yan wins vacant BW championship— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) March 16, 2021
UFC 259 – March 2021
Blachowicz/Adesanya – Blachowicz retained
Nuns/Anderson – Nunes retained
Yan/Sterling – #AndNew, Sterling wins by DQ— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) March 16, 2021
3 ideas:
1. No sense in getting labored up over the fat crowd. It’s happening.
2. Zhang Weili misses complete COVID period: last fight with followers, first fight again with followers.
3. Three title fights 🔥 🔥 🔥 https://t.co/6bjZeyM5MP
— Simon Samano (@SJSamano) March 16, 2021
I mean I will swing April 24th. Plump followers business is boomin let’s gooooo
— Brian BOOM Kelleher (@brianboom135) March 16, 2021
Would were nice if UFC waited till the vaccine used to be obtainable to their very hold demographic. However then again Florida factual had 22good sufficient rattling other folks at the Desirable Bowl. Joyful we’re getting Usman-Masvidal 2 over with quite instant.
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) March 16, 2021
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Twitter reacts to fat-ability UFC 261 with Usman-Masvidal rematch, three title fights in Florida
