If you felt like it had been a while, you were right.
The UFC took its Fight Night on the road to a U.S. venue for the first time in nearly two years, marching into the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio for a 12-bout card that ran from 4 p.m. to just after 10 p.m.
The most recent Fight Night in the U.S. outside of the UFC's Apex facility in Las Vegas was at Jacksonville, Florida in May 2020. The promotion's last event in Ohio had been UFC 203 in September 2016.
Single-digit heavyweight contenders Curtis Blaydes (No.