Diggin’ Deep on UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje - ESPN2 prelims preview

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesFor this Saturday’s October 24th UFC 254 PPV event, it’s not entirely clear what the UFC is doing with the televised prelims. In a two hour block, there are typically four scheduled contests, and yet there are only three the UFC is listing to be on this portion of the card. Perhaps there is still the longshot possibility they are setting up a contest for Sergey Morozov, who was left without an opponent when Umar Nurmagomedov pulled out about a week before the event due to illness. It isn’t as crazy as it would have seemed a year ago given the crazy amount of short notice contests the UFC has thrown together in the age of the pandemic. Nonetheless, as of the time this went to print, there were still just three contests scheduled for television. None of the listed contests scream must-see-TV, but all of them have more potential than the average contest of ending violently. Make what you will of that....

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