La Semana

UFC will hold a historic evening in Las Vegas in honor of Mexico for Independen­ce Day

- By FABIÁN TORRES

President Dana White said it in the middle of the meetings during the Super Bowl

Dana White, president of the UFC, has taken advantage of the historic week that took place, in the prelude to the Super Bowl that was played on Sunday between the 49ers and the Chiefs, to announce a special and historic evening that will take place at the next month of September.

The head of the UFC was one of the many celebritie­s invited to the 'Pat Mcafee Show', in which he talked about several mixed martial arts activities and assured that he will make a special evening in September in honor of Mexico to celebrate his Independen­ce Day with a special message for the Gghters of that country.

One of the names that White already said for the Mexican event is the presence of The Sphere, the emblematic luminous sphere that is an emblem in Las Vegas and that will serve as the stage for the Gght of the Mexicans, an event that the president went ahead to baptize as: "The greatest show in the history of the UFC."

"For the weekend of the Mexican Festivitie­s, I want to put on the biggest show in the history of the UFC in Las Vegas, in The Sphere, no one is willing to pay what I will pay to offer a show like it has never been seen in the sport," White said.

WITH MEXICANS ON THE RING

There are still no more details provided by the UFC CEO of the preparatio­ns, although it is expected that it could be an event in which a Mexican Gghter is present in each match, as they were scheduled at the UFC 297 event in Canada.

"We forget, but several of the most ruthless and lethal Gghters in history have been Mexicans, in many discipline­s, not only in the UFC. The Mexican festivitie­s are a total success because they have some of the best in the world Gghting and that's what we will celebrate at UFC," White said.

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