Dan Duggan of the Boston Herald is reporting that the UFC has locked up its first date in the state of Massachusetts on August 28th where it will hold a PPV event at the TD BankNorth Garden in Boston.
Local mixed martial arts fans can get out their 2010 calendars and circle Aug. 28. That’s the date the UFC is scheduled to hold a pay-per-view event at TD Garden.
UFC president Dana White told the Herald yesterday that his organization has reserved the date, but an official announcement won’t be made until the day draws closer.
White has big plans for the UFC’s first Boston show.
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The report isn’t an official one, because the UFC doesn’t expect to announce the event until later in 2010. But it’s pretty much a certainty.
Given Dana White’s evident passion for the market, you can expect this event to be huge. White is playing down the idea that Lesnar could make an appearance on the show, but if he’s healthy it’s hard to believe that White won’t schedule what could be the year’s biggest PPV fight in his home town. It might also make sense for the UFC to throw a Florian-Penn rematch onto the card as a co-headliner – building from an angle of a “re-born” Florian that’s a different fighter (having dispatched Guida like no one else has). This of course would mean that he’d have to probably take on and convincingly defeat one of the other top three contenders right now (Maynard, Griffin, or Edgar).
Regardless, this event and the memorial day weekend event are shaping up to be two of most pivotal on the 2010 calendar.
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