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ESPN+ Named Exclusive Home For UFC Pay-Per-Views

If you haven’t signed up for ESPN+ after the UFC’s recent broadcast deal with the sports network juggernaut, get ready to pony up. ESPN has announced that ESPN+ will serve as the exclusive home for UFC pay-per-view (PPV) events moving forward. This means, now, the only way to watch UFC PPVs will be by purchasing […]

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If you haven’t signed up for ESPN+ after the UFC’s recent broadcast deal with the sports network juggernaut, get ready to pony up.

ESPN has announced that ESPN+ will serve as the exclusive home for UFC pay-per-view (PPV) events moving forward. This means, now, the only way to watch UFC PPVs will be by purchasing them through ESPN+. The deal will last through 2025, extending the UFC and ESPN’s relationship with one another by two years.

The deal kicks into effect on the UFC’s next PPV event, UFC 236. The show goes down on April 13th from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The card features two interim UFC title fights. The first being for an interim 185-pound title between Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum.

Also, UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway faces Dustin Poirier for the interim 155-pound strap. UFC PPVs sold on ESPN+ will feature all main card fights. Prelims for UFC PPVs will continue to air on broadcast television as agreed upon under the initial deal signed between the two companies.

The UFC and ESPN signed a five-year broadcast deal recently, which includes 30 UFC Fight Night events a year. 10 main cards will air on ESPN, with the other 20 airing on ESPN+.

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Trailer Gets Remixed to Promote UFC 236 in April

Before the Avengers take on Thanos on April 26, Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier will do battle for the UFC interim lightweight title while Kelvin Gastelum faces Israel Adesanya for the interim middleweight championship at UFC 236 from Atlanta. On Thurs…

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Israel Adesanya Hints At Possible Superfight With Jon Jones

Israel Adesanya is one of the UFC’s most promising young stars at the moment. “Stylebender” will compete against Kelvin Gastelum for the interim 185-pound title in the co-main event of UFC 236. Speaking to Submission Radio recently, however, the Nigerian striker was asked about a possible future superfight with light heavyweight king Jon Jones. Unlike […]

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Israel Adesanya is one of the UFC’s most promising young stars at the moment.

“Stylebender” will compete against Kelvin Gastelum for the interim 185-pound title in the co-main event of UFC 236. Speaking to Submission Radio recently, however, the Nigerian striker was asked about a possible future superfight with light heavyweight king Jon Jones.

Unlike the long-discussed superfight between Jones and Anderson Silva that never was, Adesanya thinks a fight between himself and “Bones” will actually happen (via MMA Mania):

“Jones and Silva have spoken about fighting each other for years as well, but that never came to fruition,” Adesanya said. “This I feel is different. So yeah, I look forward to that challenge as well.”

During fight week at UFC 235 before his title defense against Anthony Smith, Jones acknowledged he’d likely one day share the Octagon with Adesanya. “Stylebender” believes Jones is one of the “smart ones” taking notice of his rise to the top:

“That shows you how serious they’re taking me, the smart ones, how much they know I’m a threat, how serious they’re taking me.”

“Like, [Jones] mentioned it on fight week of 235 or whatever, and then I went back two weeks prior on messages with Eugene when I put the question out there, how are we going to beat Jon Jones? And he kind of just laid down the rough blueprint. And I blurred a lot of it out, but yeah, we’re focusing on Gastelum.”

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Official UFC 236 Poster Released (Photo)

The official UFC 236 poster has been released. It features the four men involved in the two interim title fights of the night. UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway faces Dustin Poirier for an interim 155-pound strap. Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gaste…

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Max Holloway Promises To Defend Featherweight Title

Max Holloway will jump up to 155 pounds and attempt to capture his second divisional title. However, he has no intentions of leaving his responsibilities as champion behind. Speaking at the UFC 236 pre-fight press conference, Holloway said he’d like to drop back down to 145 pounds this summer to defend his title again (via […]

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Max Holloway will jump up to 155 pounds and attempt to capture his second divisional title.

However, he has no intentions of leaving his responsibilities as champion behind. Speaking at the UFC 236 pre-fight press conference, Holloway said he’d like to drop back down to 145 pounds this summer to defend his title again (via MMAjunkie):

“After that (Brian) Ortega fight I had to take some time personally and some business stuff, then they came to me with this fight in April,” Holloway said.

“Can’t let it slip through your fingers. At the end of the day, first things first, I got Dustin Poirier, and we’ll talk to the UFC after that. I don’t think Frankie (Edgar) or Jose (Aldo) deserve a champ that’s not willing to defend for a year. After this one I could go back down in the summer. That would be fun. But first thing’s first, April 13.”

Holloway will face Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 236 on pay-per-view (PPV). The show goes down from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on April 13, 2019. “Blessed” has successfully defended his title twice since initially dethroning Jose Aldo in 2017. Now, he’ll face Poirier, the No. 3-ranked lightweight in the UFC, who is on a four-fight sin streak.

UFC 236 is co-main evented by an interim middleweight title bout between Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum.

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Brian Ortega Offers His Thoughts On Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier II

An interim UFC lightweight title will be implemented at UFC 236. The show goes down from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on April 13th. Featherweight champion Max Holloway jumps up to 155 pounds to take on the No. 3-ranked Dustin Poirier for the honors. Recently, former 145-pound title challenger Brian Ortega caught up […]

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An interim UFC lightweight title will be implemented at UFC 236.

The show goes down from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on April 13th. Featherweight champion Max Holloway jumps up to 155 pounds to take on the No. 3-ranked Dustin Poirier for the honors. Recently, former 145-pound title challenger Brian Ortega caught up with Bloody Elbow to give his thoughts on the match-up.

In his last outing, “T-City” was handed the first loss of his professional fighting career by Holloway. The Californian said he thinks the match-up has potential to be Fight Of The Night:

“I’m not too sure, man. I know they fought before. I know Dustin got the better of him when they were young. I think both evolved into very good fighters. Max is not the same Max and Dustin is not the same Dustin. The key points that both of them have: obviously Max has the conditioning, the cardio, being able to throw punches in bunches.

“Then also, Dustin has other hidden weapons that he doesn’t use, and he has great striking as well. I feel like these are the fights I love to watch, because they’re fights you don’t know who to root with, or who to go with — because they’re both so good that they could finish each other. Those are the fights you want to see because that’s how you get fight of the night.”

Poirier and Holloway have fought before. “The Diamond” defeated Holloway for the first time in his fighting career back in 2012. The bout was also the Hawaiian’s first in the UFC. Poirier won the fight in the first round via submission.

Fast-forward seven years later, and Holloway is the king at 145 pounds, Poirier is up at lightweight, and the pair will headline one of the biggest events of the year.

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