Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to Yas Island in Abu Dhabi — formerly known as “Fight Island” — for a championship tripleheader topped by the welterweight showdown between Kamaru Usman and “The Baddest Motherf*cker,” Jorge Masvidal, who stepped up as a late replacement on just six days notice.
Event: UFC 251: “Usman vs. Masvidal”
Date: Sat., July 11, 2020
Location: Yas Island in Abu Dhabi
Broadcast: ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV), ESPN, ESPN+
UFC 251 PPV Main Event On ESPN+:
170 lbs.: UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal — (DETAILS)
UFC 251 PPV Main Card on ESPN+ (10 p.m. ET):
145 lbs.: UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway
135 lbs.: Jose Aldo vs. Petr Yan for vacant bantamweight title
115 lbs.: Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
125 lbs.: Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant
UFC 251 Prelims Card on ESPN (8 p.m. ET):
205 lbs.: Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
170 lbs.: Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Muslim Salikhov
145 lbs.: Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry
155 lbs.: Leonardo Santos vs. Roman Bogatov
UFC 251 Prelims Card on ESPN+ (6 p.m. ET):
265 lbs.: Marcin Tybura vs. Alexander Romanov
125 lbs.: Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
135 lbs.: Karol Rosa vs. Vanessa Melo
135 lbs.: Martin Day vs. Davey Grant
***Fight card, bout order and the amount of matches subject to drastic change because of the various global quarantine restrictions.***
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