Diggin’ Deep on UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier - FX prelims preview

It isn’t a surprise there isn’t a whole lot of depth to UFC 242. Abu Dhabi isn’t exactly a favorite vacation destination and fighters continually are looking for the best fighting conditions possible. Fighting outdoors, in the morning, in a dry environment, thousands of miles away from home – meaning hours of flight to get there – doesn’t exactly produce ideal conditions. While the conditions don’t exactly match that of what those from the western hemisphere faced last week in China, it is comparable in being disadvantageous. Americans and Brazilians went a combined 1-6 in contests where they weren’t facing one another. It’s not like this is a development fighters are unaware of either. Thus, it’s no surprise the UFC struggled to get notable names to make their name halfway across the world.

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