UFC 112 Confirmed for Abu Dhabi, Will Stream Live to China
By: Fighters.com Staff Posted On: January 27, 2010 at 1:18pm
UFC 112 will occur outdoors in Abu Dhabi April 10 and be headlined by title fights between Fighters.com and UFC middleweight champion “The Spider” Anderson Silva (25-4) versus eighth-ranked “Phenom” Vitor Belfort (18-8) and Fighters.com and UFC Lightweight Champion “Prodigy” BJ Penn (15-5-1) versus sixth-ranked “The Answer” Frank Edgar (11-1), the confirmed with Yahoo!Sports.
Fighters.com seventh-ranked welterweight Matt Hughes (43-7) and PRIDE veteran Renzo Gracie (13-6-1) will also matchup on the undercard.
Zuffa, LLC, parent company of the UFC and WEC, has sold a 10% stake to Abu Dhabi government-owned Flash Entertainment, Zuffa earlier this month.
The event will be the UFC’s first outdoors.
Also announced, the UFC will collaborate with Sohu.com to stream UFC pay-per-views live to China beginning at UFC 109 in Las Vegas February 6.
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