Jon Anik hit the nail on the head.
"What a week. What a sport. What a life," he said, closing out the ESPN+ broadcast of a long-awaited UFC 251 pay-per-view show from the ballyhooed Fight Island venue on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
The 13-fight show began shortly after 6 p.m. ET and its main event didn't start until after Bruce Buffer was making the official introductions nearly seven hours later, but Dana White's pandemic-skirting concept seemed a winner on a card crammed with three title fights and some of the promotion's biggest stars.
Anik said the company put its people up at 2,220 rooms in seven hotels and conducted more than 8,500 coronavirus tests in its trip, which covered better than 8,500 miles from Las Vegas.