UFC Fight Island wasn’t just a temporary fixture, as head president Dana White has declared Abu Dhabi ‘the new fight capitol of the world’ in a recent interview with John McAuley of The National.
White said Yas Island will replace Las Vegas as the new mecca for the ‘biggest and baddest fights’ in the world and revealed that Khabib Nurmagomedov will likely defend his lightweight title against newly-crowned interim champ Justin Gaethje in Abu Dhabi later this year.
“The shows that we bring here, this is the only international destination for fights,” White said.