UFC 276 Bellator 276: Borics vs. Burnell

 

UFC 276 announced for July 2 along with International Fight Week

The UFC’s summertime festivities are back.

The promotion announced Saturday that UFC 276 will take place on July 2 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as part of the 10th anniversary of International Fight Week. Last year, the weeklong fanfest was postponed until September due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

No bouts have been announced yet for UFC 276.

UFC 276 Bellator 276: Borics vs. Burnell

International Fight Week officially begins on June 26 with a full schedule still to be made official. Per a press release, a “two-day, interactive fan experience” will be hosted at the Las Vegas Convention Center on July 1 and July 2. Amateur tournaments will also take place at the venue throughout the week.

The UFC Hall of Fame Class of 2022 will also be inducted during the week, with the exact date of the ceremony still to be determined.

Also part of the schedule are the standard UFC fight week events including a press conference and ceremonial weigh-ins.

UFC

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American blended combative techniques advancement situated in Las Vegas, Nevada, that is possessed and worked by parent organization Zuffa. It is the biggest MMA advancement on the planet and highlights the highest level warriors of the game. Situated in the United States, the UFC produces occasions worldwide that exhibit eleven weight divisions and submit to the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. Starting at 2017, the UFC has held north of 400 occasions. Dana White fills in as the leader of the UFC. He has stood firm on that footing starting around 2001; while under the administration of Dana White the UFC has developed into a worldwide famous multibillion-dollar venture.

The main occasion was held in 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado. The motivation behind the early Ultimate Fighting Championship rivalries was to distinguish the best military workmanship in a challenge with negligible guidelines between contenders of various battling disciplines like boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Sambo, wrestling, Muay Thai, karate, judo, and different styles. In ensuing rivalries, warriors started embracing successful methods from more than one discipline, which by implication made an altogether different way of battling known as present-day blended hand to hand fighting. In 2016, UFC's parent organization Zuffa was offered to William Morris Endeavor (WME-IMG) for $4 billion.

Gaethje (23-3) enters the ward falling off his 2021 Fight of the Year against Chandler at UFC 268 on Nov. 6. The previous UFC interval lightweight hero has won five of his last six battles with four TKOs. The main difficulty in that stretch was a title unification session versus Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 254, where he was submitted before the Russian declared his retirement.

A UFC light heavyweight title battle pitting champion Glover Teixeira versus Jiri Prochazka was initially gotten ready for the occasion however it was ultimately pushed to UFC 275.

Blended combative techniques (MMA), now and then alluded to as enclosure fighting,[1] no limits (NHB),[2] and extreme fighting,[3] is a full-contact battle sport in view of striking, catching and ground battling, consolidating procedures from different battle sports from around the world.[4] The initially reported utilization of the term blended hand to hand fighting was in a survey of UFC 1 by TV pundit Howard Rosenberg in 1993.[5] The topic of who really instituted the term is likely to debate.[6]

During the mid twentieth century, different interstylistic challenges occurred all through Japan and in the nations of the Four Asian Tigers. In Brazil, there was the game of Vale Tudo, wherein warriors from different styles battled with practically no standards. The Gracie family was referred to advance Vale Tudo matches as a method for advancing their own Brazilian jiu-jitsu style.[7] An antecedent to current MMA was the 1976 Ali versus Inoki display session (which finished in a draw after 15 rounds), battled between fighter Muhammad Ali and grappler Antonio Inoki in Japan, where it later roused the groundwork of Pancrase in 1993 and the Pride Fighting Championships in 1997.

In 1980, CV Productions, Inc. made the first directed MMA association in the United States, called Tough Guy Contest, which was subsequently renamed Battle of the Superfighters. The organization endorsed ten competitions in Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, in 1983 the Pennsylvania State Senate passed a bill denying the sport.[8][9] In the 1990s, the Gracie family brought their Brazilian jiu-jitsu style, first created in Brazil from the 1920s, to the United States - which finished in the establishing of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) advancement organization in 1993. The organization held an occasion with basically no standards, for the most part because of the impact of Art Davie and Rorion Gracie endeavoring to duplicate Vale Tudo battles that existed in Brazil[7] and would later execute an alternate arrangement of rules (model: wiping out kicking a grounded rival), which contrasted from different associations which were more for sensible, road like fights.[10]

Initially elevated as a rivalry to observe the best combative techniques for genuine unarmed battle, contenders from various battling styles were set in opposition to each other in challenges with moderately not many rules.[11] Later, individual warriors joined numerous hand to hand fighting into their style. MMA advertisers were forced to take on extra standards to expand contenders' security, to consent to wear guidelines and to widen standard acknowledgment of the sport.[3] Following these changes, the game has seen expanded prominence with a compensation for every view business that opponents boxing and expert wrestling.[12]