{"id":372757,"date":"2021-01-07T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=372757"},"modified":"2021-01-09T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T15:20:40","slug":"ufc-257-and-january-fight-island-events-to-have-limited-number-of-fans-in-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-257-and-january-fight-island-events-to-have-limited-number-of-fans-in-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 257 and January Fight Island events to have &#8220;limited number&#8221; of fans in attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since UFC 248 last March, fans will be in attendance at a UFC event.<\/p>\n<p>Starting January 16 and ending with UFC 257, a limited number of fans will be in attendance at the Ethiad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Fight Island. The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/admediaoffice\/status\/1347249301852987393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that fans will be permitted on their social media accounts<\/a>. Abu Dhabi did not announce how many fans will be allowed in the arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tripleheader will see three mega-fights, utilizing Abu Dhabi\u2019s proven \u2018safe zone\u2019 concept to protect the health and safety of all delegates, spectators, crew, and media,\u201d they tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC kicks off 2021 on Fight Island and will break in the new Ethiad Arena as opposed to the Flash Forum where they have been holding events.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see that the UFC will have fans in attendance as White hasn&#8217;t been the biggest fan of having reduced capacity crowds. We have seen reduced crowds in boxing, NFL, and NBA, but the UFC has yet to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll stay here at the Apex instead of going somewhere where we can\u2019t have a full crowd,\u201d White said after UFC 255. \u201cWhat I\u2019m not going to do is I\u2019m not going to take a 10,000-seat arena and sell 5,000 tickets. I\u2019d rather stay (in Las Vegas).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of the January 16 event, Max Holloway looks to return to the win column against rising contender, Calvin Kattar. Holloway enters the fight as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odds.com\/ufc\/odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">near two-to-one favorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the second Fight Island event on January 20, ranked UFC welterweights collide as Neil Magny faces Michael Chiesa in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the three-event stretch on Fight Island is UFC 257 <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-accepts-the-ufcs-offer-to-fight-dustin-poirier-on-january-23\/\">which sees Conor McGregor&#8217;s highly-anticipated return against Dustin Poirier<\/a>. The card also sees Michael Chandler&#8217;s UFC debut against Dan Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of fans being allowed in for the three-straight Fight Island events?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since UFC 248 last March, fans will be in attendance at a UFC event. Starting January 16 and ending with UFC 257, a limited number of fans will be in attendance at the Ethiad Arena in Abu Dhabi on Fight Island. The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism announced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":274800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC 257 and January Fight Island events to have &quot;limited number&quot; of fans in attendance | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the first time since UFC 248, fans will be in attendance at a UFC event, Abu Dhabi announced a limited number of fans are allowed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-257-and-january-fight-island-events-to-have-limited-number-of-fans-in-attendance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UFC 257 and January Fight Island events to have &quot;limited number&quot; 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