UFC President Dana White visited Instagram tonight, where he shared a photo of the octagon on the beach at UFC Fight Island.
As seen below courtesy of MMA journalist Chisanga Malata on Twitter, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has an amazing setup for its next series of events.
Dana White has given fans a glimpse of Fight Island.
An octagon on the beach !! U #UFC pic.twitter.com/SqRZkXWwUp
– Chisanga Malata (@Chisanga_Malata) June 28, 2020
According to Dana White, UFC Fight Island will begin hosting events the weekend of July 11. The inaugural event on the Island will be UFC 251, a pay-per-event bout card with three title fights.
At the headlining event, reigning UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will put his title on the line against rising division contender Gilbert Burns.
In the main event of the night, Alexander Volkanovski will attempt to defend his featherweight title for the first time when he rematches Max Holloway.
Also featured on the UFC 251 main card is a bantamweight title fight between Petr Yan and José Aldo.
As Dana White noted, UFC Fight Island will continue to host fight cards for promotion after UFC 251.
Three additional events are scheduled on the island on July 15, 18 and 25.
Get all the UFC Fight Island event lineups below (h / t MMA Fighting):
UFC 251 – July 11
Main card | 10:00 pm ET at PPV
- Kamaru Usman vs Gilbert Burns – welterweight title fight
- Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway – featherweight title fight
- Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo – vacant bantamweight title fight
- Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
- Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant
Preliminary Card | 8:00 pm ET on ESPN / ESPN +
- Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Muslim Salikhov
- Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry
- Leonardo Santos vs. Roman Bogatov
Early Preliminaries | 6 pm ET, ESPN / ESPN +
- Marcin Tybura vs. Alexander Romanov
- Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
- Karol Rosa against Vanessa Melo
- Martin Day vs. Davey Grant
UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Ige – July 15
Main card | 10 pm ET on ESPN +
- Calvin Kattar vs. Dan Ige
- Frankie Edgar vs. Pedro Muñoz
- Carla Esparza vs. Marina Rodríguez
- Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Mounir Lazzez
- Jared Gordon vs. Chris Fishgold
Preliminary Card | 7 pm ET on ESPN +
- Modest Bukauskas vs. Vinicius Moreira
- Molly McCann vs. Talia Santos
- Ricardo Ramos against Lerone Murphy
- John Phillips vs. Dusko Todorovic
- Tim Elliott vs. Ryan Benoit
- Diana Belbita vs. Liana Jojua
Dana White and the company have also stacked fight cards scheduled for July 18 and 25.
UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 – July 18
Main card | 9:00 pm ET on ESPN +
- Deiveson Figuredo vs Joseph Benavidez – vacant flyweight title fight
- Jack Hermansson vs. Kelvin Gastelum
- Marc Diakiese vs. Rafael Fiziev
- Ariane Lipski vs. Luana Carolina
- Alexandre Pantoja vs. Askar Askarov
Preliminary Card | 6 pm ET on ESPN +
- Roman Dolidze vs. Khadis Ibragimov
- Grant Dawson vs. Nad Narimani
- Joe Duffy vs. Joel Alvarez
- Brett Johns vs. Montel Jackson
- Tagir Ulanbekov against Alexander Doskalchuk
- Davi Ramos vs. Arman Tsarukyan
- Carlos Felipe against Serghei Spivac
UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till – July 25
Main card | TBD start time
- Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till
- Mauricio Rua against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta
- Fabricio Werdum vs. Alexander Gustafsson
- Danny Roberts vs. Nicolas Dalby
Preliminary Card | TBD start time
- Tom Aspinall vs. Jake Collier
- Justin Tafa vs. Raphael Pessoa
- Movsar Evloev vs. Mike Grundy
- Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad
- Nathaniel Wood vs. Umar Nurmagomedov
- Ramazan Emeev vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov
What do you think of the UFC Fight Island setup created by Dana White and the Ultimate Fighting Championship staff? Share your thoughts in the comments section of the PENN Nation!
This article first appeared on BJPENN.com on June 27, 2020.
