{"id":49902,"date":"2017-10-31T07:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=49902"},"modified":"2017-10-31T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:42:49","slug":"western-australia-gets-its-first-ufc-event-with-february-pay-per-view-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/western-australia-gets-its-first-ufc-event-with-february-pay-per-view-card.html","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia gets its first UFC event with February pay-per-view card"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Western Australia gets its first UFC event with February pay-per-view card<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Western Australia gets its first UFC event with February pay-per-view card:- The UFC\u2019s long-awaited debut in Western Australia is finally official, with promotion execs announcing that UFC 221 will take place in Perth on Sunday, February 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Due to the time change, the pay-per-view event will air on Saturday, Feb. 10, in its traditional timeslot in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Former UFC exec Joe Carr this past summer told MMAjunkie a pay-per-view event could be coming to Western Australia, which recently legalized MMA following a longtime ban on fighting in a caged surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to bring pay-per-views or our highest caliber cards (to foreign markets) because you\u2019re doing it in the middle of the night there,\u201d Carr said. \u201cWe did Manchester with Michael Bisping last year, but that\u2019s an irregularity, right? That\u2019s not the rule. Whereas in Australia, it\u2019s easy for us to bring pay-per-views because you can do them Sunday there, and it\u2019s still Saturday night primetime (in the U.S.). There\u2019s no conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter where the feed is coming from, as long as it\u2019s Saturday night in our timeslot. Even when we thinking about Perth next year, beginning of the year, should that be a pay-per-view? That\u2019s on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Opened in 2012, Pert Arena is a 15,000-seat venue that currently plays host to the Perth Wildcats of Australia\u2019s National Basketball League<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/10\/ufc-221-perth-western-australia-first-ufc-event<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/western-australia-gets-its-first-ufc-event-with-february-pay-per-view-card.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Australia gets its first UFC event with February pay-per-view card Western Australia gets its first UFC event with February pay-per-view card:- The UFC\u2019s long-awaited debut in Western Australia is finally official, with promotion execs announcing that UFC 221 will take place in Perth on Sunday, February 11. 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