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Diggin’ Deep on UFC Fight Island 7: Holloway vs. Kattar - Prelims preview
Get the lowdown on the early action from the UFC’s return to action after a three week layoff, featuring former JC wrestling champion Phil Hawes clashing with sniping Nassourdine Imavov. Jan 14, 2021, 10:00am EST
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The UFC takes a break for three weeks and the world ends up going to hell. Hopefully, everything will find a semblance of normalcy asking for complete normalcy would be asking too much and the UFC getting back into the swing of things is a good way for that to happen. Going back to Abu Dhabi or Fight Island as they prefer calling it it also marks the return of the UFC to network television, making their debut on ABC. Of course, that won’t happen until the main card and the prelims have been decimated by injuries and illness. Nonetheless, there is still so
January 12, 2021
This weekend’s UFC event is not only the promotion’s return to Fight Island, but it is also the first event of the calendar year and the promotion’s debut on ABC. In the UFC on ABC 1 main event, top featherweight contenders clash when former champion Max Holloway takes on the surging Calvin Kattar.
Holloway is looking to rebound after a pair of championship losses to Alexander Volkanovski. Meanwhile, Kattar is in search of the biggest win of his professional career with a win over the former champion. “The Boston Finisher” has only suffered two defeats across eight total appearances inside the Octagon.
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - OCTOBER 02: Carlos Felipe of Brazil poses on the scale during the UFC Fight Night weigh-in on October 02, 2020 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)
After an unsuccessful debut in July of this past year, Carlos Felipe got his sophomore assignment for October against powerful puncher Yorgan De Castro. After out-working the Cape Verdean native on the feet for the better part of fifteen minutes, Felipe took home a decision and his first UFC win. Although that win is always a good feeling, Felipe felt a lot of that validation in his first fight as well.