Spike TV announces 8 p.m. ET/PT start time for Saturday’s UFC 120 event
Saturday's UFC 120 broadcast will run three hours and commence at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Spike TV officials today announced.
The show, which takes place at The 02 in London, initially was announced with an 9 p.m. ET/PT start time on Spike TV.
And although the Oct. 16 show airs on a five- to eight-hour delay in the U.S., MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) will be on scene for the show and with live round-by-round coverage beginning at approximately 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT).
UFC 120 features a middleweight headliner between Michael Bisping and Yoshihiro Akiyama and a welterweight co-headliner between former Strikeforce champ Jake Shields and fellow welterweight contender Martin Kampmann.
Earlier this week in a media conference call for the event, UFC UK president Marshall Zelaznik said the show is likely to be the organization's most successful European offering in terms of attendance and gate. UFC 120 is the first event in the U.K. since UFC 105 nearly a year ago. That show, which took place at Manchester's MEN Arena, was the highest-attended European event (16,693) in UFC history. However, it fell short of UFC 75's $2.7 million live gate, an event at The 02 that that also set a European record.
The full UFC 120 card includes:
MAIN CARD
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The show, which takes place at The 02 in London, initially was announced with an 9 p.m. ET/PT start time on Spike TV.
And although the Oct. 16 show airs on a five- to eight-hour delay in the U.S., MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) will be on scene for the show and with live round-by-round coverage beginning at approximately 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT).
UFC 120 features a middleweight headliner between Michael Bisping and Yoshihiro Akiyama and a welterweight co-headliner between former Strikeforce champ Jake Shields and fellow welterweight contender Martin Kampmann.
Earlier this week in a media conference call for the event, UFC UK president Marshall Zelaznik said the show is likely to be the organization's most successful European offering in terms of attendance and gate. UFC 120 is the first event in the U.K. since UFC 105 nearly a year ago. That show, which took place at Manchester's MEN Arena, was the highest-attended European event (16,693) in UFC history. However, it fell short of UFC 75's $2.7 million live gate, an event at The 02 that that also set a European record.
The full UFC 120 card includes:
MAIN CARD
- Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Michael Bisping
- Carlos Condit vs. Dan Hardy
- John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle
- Travis Browne vs. Cheick Kongo
- Claude Patrick vs. James Wilks
- Cyrille Diabate vs. Alexander Gustafsson
- Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Kappke de Quieroz
- Steve Cantwell vs. Stanislav Nedkov
- Mark Holst vs. Paul Sass
- Spencer Fisher vs. Kurt Warburton
- Fabio Maldonado vs. James McSweeney
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