After a long string of events out of the Apex facility in Las Vegas, the UFC is now taking its show back on the road with five-straight events on “Fight Island”—that’s Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, if you didn’t already know.
The first of these five events on Fight Island will be UFC 253, which goes down this Saturday.
UFC 253 is generating massive amounts of hype, but that’s due primarily to the main and co-main events. The card’s headlining honors will go to a middleweight title fight between undefeated champion Israel Adesanya and his fiercest challenger to date, Paulo Costa—also undefeated.