Biggest Fight Week Ever For UFC: Conor McGregor, Jose Aldo, Urijah Faber, Paige VanZant, Weidman
- The UFC is about to kick off their biggest fight week of all-time, as they have an unprecedented three cards set for this weekend. First is UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant, which features heavily promoted women's strawweight fighter Paige VanZant. That card airs Thursday night on Fight Pass, and also features phenom Sage Northcutt.
The second card, The Ultimate Fighter Finale airs Friday Night on Fox Sports 1, and is main evented by a huge featherweight bout, Chad Mendes vs. Frankie Edgar. The show also features the finals of the Faber vs. McGregor TUF season.
The grand finale is Saturday night's UFC 194, which is one of the most stacked cards in MMA history. The main event is the highly anticipated Conor McGregor vs. Jose Aldo title unification bout, and it's co-main evented by a Chris Weidman vs. Luke Rockhold title fight. Jacare Souza, Yoel Romero, Tecia Torres, Damien Maia, Max Holloway are all also on the card. Wrestling Inc will have full coverage of UFC 194 Saturday night.
UFC has already kicked off their fight week promotion by releasing the first couple episodes of Fight Pass Embedded, which show Paige VanZant and Sage Northcutt's preparation. You can check out the first, second and third videos at the top and bottom of this page.
The show also chronicles the prep of Rose Namajunas, who made it to the finals of The Ultimate Fighter 20, and shaved her head recently because in her words 'that s–t was getting in my face during training'