The UFC is returning to Abu Dhabi this fall with one other pay-per-view occasion.
On Thursday, the promotion introduced that UFC 294 will happen at Etihad Enviornment in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 21. No bouts had been introduced for the occasion.
The situation has change into virtually a house away from house for the UFC over the previous few years. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down many of the world in 2020, the UFC hosted a number of occasions in Abu Dhabi, which on the time was billed as “Battle Island.” They returned in October 2021 for UFC 267 — which included Glover Teixeira capturing the sunshine heavyweight title in opposition to Jan Blachowicz, together with a formidable first-round submission win for Khamzat Chimaev over Li Jingliang.
This previous October, the UFC offered a stacked UFC 280 occasion, which noticed Islam Makhachev win the light-weight title in opposition to Charles Oliveira in the principle occasion, together with Aljamain Sterling’s profitable bantamweight title protection in opposition to T.J. Dillashaw, and Sean O’Malley choosing up an upset win in opposition to Petr Yan.