With no major professional sports
teams in town, we’re happy to make do with the Isotopes, Lobos, and other
amateur teams - they make the city what it is! But now, we’ll have another, long-awaited
option for our sports fans: UFC!
For a long time, New Mexico has been
trying to break into the mixed martial arts scene, especially since some know
it as the “Mecca of MMA.” But in June, all of Albuquerque’s loyal MMA fans will
be rewarded with a June 7th fight between Benson “Smooth” Henderson (20-3) and
Rustam “Tiger” Khabilov (17-1). And hopefully this will be the first in a long
history of UFC matches in Albuquerque.
Here’s the full scoop from Southwest Fight News:
The
event will be the first UFC event to ever be held within the New Mexico state
lines and a couple months prior we dove in-depth as to what a possible UFC
event would look like. Tingley is a 11,571-seat multi-purpose arena that is
listed to have 9,286 permanent seats. The best guess for a seating chart would
be to imagine the Jackson’s MMA Series set-up that has traditionally used half
of the arena and then imagine that the UFC would likely use the entire venue
instead of cutting out a single section like the JMMAS has done.
...
According
to sources, on June 7th, the UFC Fight Night event will be held inside the historic
Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the evening’s festivities are
expected to be headlined by a Lightweight Title Contender eliminator match
between former UFC Champion Benson “Smooth” Henderson (20-3) and Rustam “Tiger”
Khabilov (17-1). The #1 ranked contender Henderson is seemingly significantly
ahead in his title trajectory then the #13 ranked Khabilov, but the
Jackson-Winkeljohn trained Khabilov is currently on a six-fight win streak
including three within the UFC ranks.
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