The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is preparing to return to the pay-per-view (PPV) market on Saturday (February 13, 2021), to present UFC 258, which will feature a highly intriguing Welterweight title fight between the division champion Kamaru Usman and his American Top Team (ATT) training partner Gilbert Burns.
It’s a fight between two of the best fighters in the world, weighing 170 pounds, one looking to prove UFC gold for the first time, while the other looking to increase his ever impressive resume by marking his third title defense.
Although the two men have been friends and have nothing but mutual admiration, one that they are locked into the octagon together, it will be all business with personal feelings left out. And this is the theme of the newest promotional video for the promotion to promote the card – which will air exclusively on ESPN + PPV – within UFC APEX.
Usman (17-1, 12-0 UFC) has not experienced defeat in seven years and is quickly becoming one of the most dominated Welterweights to step into the eight-sided cage. As for Burns, his meteoric rise began in 2017, winning eight out of nine, including the last six in a row in that period.
In a later action, Kelvin Gastelum will face hard-hitting Ian Heinisch in a middleweight case, while Maycee Barber returns from injury to face the Mexican sensation Alexa Grasso.
Remember that MMAmania.com will offer live coverage round by round, blow by blow from the right UFC 258 fight card On here, starting with the beginning ESPN + Online “preliminary” games, which are scheduled to start at 6:30 pm ET, then the remaining balance on the bottom card on ESPN /ESPN + at 8 pm ET, before the PPV main card start time at 10 pm ET on ESPN + PPV.
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