And if this fight goes anything like I’m imagining, it’ll be a tremendous fight that they’ll never forget in Salt Lake City.”
So we get to come out here and give Salt Lake City a treat. “But at the end of the day, my paycheck doesn’t really change, it stays the same. “Initially, I was like, ‘ Okay,’” Usman said, the emphasis on that last word (and his facial expression) conveying surprise. Usman is originally from Auchi, Nigeria, but now trains out of Denver, so he’s at least familiar with the oft-forgotten Mountain Time Zone.īut even he didn’t foresee SLC as a venue for his sixth title defense. “Back home, I’m sleeping at sea level, you know? … But when I came out, I couldn’t tell no difference. “Everyone’s told me about the elevation!” Edwards added. He added that he paid out of his own pocket for him and his team to come to Utah two weeks before the fight (instead of the traditional Tuesday before fight night) because he was worried about acclimating to both the time difference and the alleged altitude issues. And I’m about to become world champion, so it is what it is.” But the title is the title no matter where you put it. “When you’re a kid, you picture your first UFC title somewhere massive - it’s going to be in Vegas, it’s going to be in New York, somewhere dramatic. “First of all, I didn’t know where it was. He admitted that when he was informed that fight would be taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, it was initially a bit of a letdown. Leon Edwards, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but who lives and trains in Birmingham, England, will be challenging welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king Kamaru Usman for the belt Saturday. Some of the fighters who will compete on Saturday at Vivint Arena felt a little differently. Back when it was announced that the UFC 278 pay-per-view would be held in Salt Lake City, both UFC president Dana White and Smith Entertainment Group chairman Ryan Smith went to great lengths to convince assembled reporters that it’s not that big a surprise that such a marquee MMA event would be staged here.
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