Into every significant sports weekend, a little Dana White must fall.
The bare-skulled boss is on the road with his combat behemoth this weekend in Australia, staging a pay-per-view show that'll go head to head with college football, playoff-relevant baseball and endless pontificating about the opening Sunday of the NFL.
UFC 293 is the Octagonal event set for Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, and it's topped by a five-bout portion featuring locally based hero Israel Adesanya, who'll make the first defense of his second middleweight title reign against fifth-ranked contender Sean Strickland.
Adesanya held all the cards at 185 pounds for 37 months before he was knocked out by Alex Pereira at UFC 281 in New York City last November.