{"id":373842,"date":"2021-01-21T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=373842"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:11:27","slug":"ufc-257-ppv-is-trending-great-says-dana-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-257-ppv-is-trending-great-says-dana-white\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 257 PPV is &#8220;trending great,&#8221; says Dana White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White says the upcoming UFC 257 pay-per-view is trending to be a &#8220;great&#8221; success, and that he expects it to over perform.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 257 goes this Saturday on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. The card will be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/conor-mcgregor-dustin-poirier-come-face-to-face-ahead-of-ufc-257-rematch\/\">headlined<\/a> by a lightweight rematch between the UFC&#8217;s biggest star, Conor McGregor, and the division&#8217;s No. 2 contender Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n<p>The bout will be a rematch of a 2014 featherweight fight that McGregor won by first-round knockout. While the pair&#8217;s second meeting has not been preceded by nearly as much trash talk as their first, it still seems to be generating massive interest.\u00a0According to White, his trusted pre-fight metrics all point to UFC 257 being a blockbuster\u2014although that&#8217;s apparently nothing new during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"c1BpgL\">\u201cThis thing is trending great,\u201d White told reporters at today\u2019s UFC 257 press conference (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/1\/21\/22242724\/dana-white-claims-ufc-257-ppv-buys-trending-great-for-conor-mcgregor-you-can-only-imagine-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cYeah, it\u2019s good, it\u2019s gonna be good. When was there a bad one since the pandemic started? There hasn\u2019t been a bad pay-per-view, they\u2019ve all been over-performing, so you can only imagine what this is gonna do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its Conor McGregor vs. Dustin Poirier main event, UFC 257 will feature a number of other exciting fights, most notably a lightweight co-main event between former Bellator champion Michael Chandler and Kiwi striker Dan Hooker.<\/p>\n<p>See the full lineup for the card below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UFC 257 Main Card \u2013\u00a010:00 pm ET on ESPN+ PPV<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor<\/li>\n<li>Dan Hooker vs. Michael Chandler<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Eye vs. Joanne Calderwood<\/li>\n<li>Matt Frevola vs. Ottman Azaitar<\/li>\n<li>Marina Rodriguez vs. Amanda Ribas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UFC 257 Prelims\u00a0\u2013\u00a08:00 pm ET on ESPN+<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nasrat Haqparast vs. Arman Tsarukyan<\/li>\n<li>Brad Tavares vs. Antonio Carlos Junior<\/li>\n<li>Julianna Pena vs. Sara McMann<\/li>\n<li>Khalil Rountree Jr vs. Marcin Prachnio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UFC 257 Early Prelims\u00a0\u2013\u00a06:30 pm ET on ESPN+<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Sanchez vs. Makhmud Muradov<\/li>\n<li>Movsar Evloev vs. Nik Lentz<\/li>\n<li>Amir Albazi vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White says the upcoming UFC 257 pay-per-view is trending to be a &#8220;great&#8221; success, and that he expects it to over perform. UFC 257 goes this Saturday on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. The card will be headlined by a lightweight rematch between the UFC&#8217;s biggest star, Conor McGregor, and the division&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":286057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10112,39610],"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 PPV is &quot;trending great,&quot; says Dana White | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White says the upcoming UFC 257 pay-per-view is trending to be a &quot;great&quot; success, and that he expects it to over perform.\u00a0\" \/>\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-ppv-is-trending-great-says-dana-white\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UFC 257 PPV is &quot;trending great,&quot; 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