Five Reasons Why I’m Super F—ing Pumped For UFC 286 In London

1. Start time matters

This may not seem as that big a deal depending of where you live. But let me tell you – and I’m speaking for every single European MMA fan here – a numbered UFC event that doesn’t start in the middle of the goddamn night is like Christmas to us.

For the longest time, this almost seemed like a distant dream. Even when the UFC occasionally decided to put on big fight cards in this part of the world, they’d still have the audacity to cater the start times to the American viewers, and European fans would continue to enable them by still showing up to the arenas despite main cards starting early in the fucking morning the next day.

When you want to watch UFC in Europe from home, you usually have to make one of two choices. Either you stay up all night, force yourself through a card from beginning to end, sacrificing your next day and ruining your sleep schedule completely in the process – or you skip most of the card and wake up early just to catch the last few main card bouts.

So even though I’m over here in Sweden and won’t even be in the arena on Saturday, the start times make my life a whole lot easier and allow me to actually enjoy an entire PPV event like a normal person for once. Hell, we might even do a fight companion livestream with our Swedish podcast ”Käftsmällspodden” for this one – something that’s obviously out of the question most of the time when main cards starts at 4 o’clock in the morning.