After all the hype, the UFC White House fight card feels like just another event

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By the time UFC CEO Dana White finally made his huge announcement, it felt like the whole thing had gotten shrunk in the wash. The UFC’s big event at the White House — we’re apparently calling it UFC Freedom 250 — isn’t the monster we were promised. Instead it looks like, well, just another UFC event.

A UFC lightweight title unifier between champ Ilia Topuria and interim champ Justin Gaethje. An interim heavyweight title fight between Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane. A handful of other fights that seem like they’d fit right in on any old fight night card. And … that’s it?

It would be a solid offering as a regular numbered UFC event (especially now that they don’t cost 80 bucks on pay-per-view for American viewers anymore). But after you spent months promising us the greatest UFC event of all time? Yeah, this isn’t that.

One real title fight. One interim title fight while the real champ heals up at home in England. An undercard of familiar names sprinkled into matchups no one was really asking for.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/after-all-the-hype-the-ufc-white-house-fight-card-feels-like-just-another-event-042750056.html



Guess I just don't see the appeal of this.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Markwayne Mullins vs. opponent to be named later.

[displacedvermoter]

3. I would pay to see a Mullins - O'Brien

match, maybe with Bernie as ref!

[True Dough]

4. Markwayne Mullin vs.

any 10th grade textbook.

A major mismatch!

[rsdsharp]

2. But it's gonna be in a brand spanking new 100,000 seat stadium

(plans to be drawn at a later time). It will be the bestest, biggest, hottest stadium EVAH! And everybody is gonna come to see Donnie! We don’t need no fighters. Donnie can’t spell MMA, anyway.