UFC Vice President David Shaw confirmed Saturday that the UFC Apex will proceed to be utilized regardless of the promotion’s plans for extra street reveals in 2025.
Shaw was filling in for UFC President Dana White on the UFC Edmonton post-fight press convention and spoke concerning the UFC’s plans to hit the street extra on this upcoming yr, but in addition maintained that the UFC Apex will proceed to be a house for fights.
“There’ll be an elevated variety of occasions exterior of the Apex relative to this yr as we get into the 2025 schedule,” Shaw mentioned (H/T Cageside Press).
David Shaw speaks on plans for the UFC Apex and explains its worth to the corporate
“It’s robust for us to anticipate what two or three years down the street goes to seem like,” Shaw continued. “But it surely (persevering with to make use of the UFC Apex) makes loads of sense for lots of causes. There’s loads of fighters in Vegas, it’s simple for us operationally, it’s clearly easy from a budgetary perspective.”
“The rigor and the stress and the way laborious it may be to be on the street, I imply you guys comprehend it, you’re week in and week out with us and different promotions. It’s robust,” he defined. “So I feel having residence video games and being within the Apex the place you possibly can simply flip off the lights and lock the door, it makes loads of sense for us. Will we ever get again to pre-COVID of no Apex, I don’t suppose so. However I feel we’re going to search out the best stability for us.”
Fights on the UFC Apex saved the UFC throughout the COVID years, however followers have grown fairly uninterested in the tiny area and nearly nonexistent crowd. Fighters additionally appear to desire preventing in packed arenas, as evidenced by their reactions to the electrifying crowd at UFC Edmonton. The Edmonton card additionally broke a document, changing into the highest-grossing Battle Night time occasion in North American historical past at $2.6 million U.S.
