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If you weren’t in front of a TV on Saturday night, you may have missed the greatest sports spectacle of the year. It’s not February, so it wasn’t the Super Bowl. It wasn’t the NBA or NHL playoffs, as they’re still working toward their regular-season conclusion. If you weren’t on your living room couch or at a local sports bar on Saturday evening, you let UFC 261 pass you by, and wow did you miss out.
Saturday night’s UFC pay-per-view was a fight card loaded with talent and championship-caliber fighters that provided its viewers, both live and at home, with entertainment that will keep them talking for weeks. UFC 261 marked the first indoor, full capacity event in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those in attendance were in for a treat.
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Though the UFC had already been the first significant sports entity to return with recurring shows at its Apex facility in Las Vegas and Fight Island in the United Arab Emirates, something was clearly missing.
That s not the case anymore.
The octagonal mixed martial arts conglomerate welcomed about 15,000 ready-to-burst fans into Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday night, confirming the WE ARE BACK! claim that czar Dana White had tweeted upon announcing the show in early March.
Indeed, UFC 261 went off as a 13-bout show featuring three title fights atop a crowded bill, including a welterweight championship rematch between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal that was a runback of a match on Fight Island last summer that Masvidal famously took on less than a week s notice.
Here’s everything that happened at UFC 261 last night
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Last night (Sat., April 24, 2021), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) ventured to Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., for UFC 261, and there was much to be excited about. Three title fights, the return of a full crowd of fans, lots of action throughout the card UFC 261 was a must-watch event that gives us plenty to discuss and analyze.
Let’s take a closer look at the best performances and techniques:
Usman Leaves No Doubt
It’s time to wake up and realize that Kamaru Usman is one of the greatest fighters of all time.