NEW YORK – Madison Square Garden is not an easy venue to book in the dead of fall, not with pro hockey and the New York Knickerbockers’ semi-pro basketball team and everything else, but the UFC managed to lock in Nov. 12 for its first event in the state since 1995.
It’s official!
And, as you’d expect from such shrewd calendar masters, UFC 205 will take place on the 23rd anniversary of UFC 1, which occurred on Nov. 12, 1993. It’s poetic, in a dark-to-light kind of way. UFC 1 being the old Wild West eight-man tournament, a spectacle of sick, lingering curiosity with limited rules that only took place in Colorado because there wasn’t a boxing commission in place to say no…all the way to New York, the last of the hold-outs, who finally prospected some gold at the confluence of the main and revenue streams in 2016.