Reaction: Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya 2, Jorge Masvidal vs. Gilbert Burns Set For UFC 287

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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UFC president Dana White made a slew of big fight announcements on Friday — some that were already confirmed, and others that were not — including a massive pair of fights for the UFC's April pay-per-view event, UFC 287. Following White's special announcement stream, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Shaun Al-Shatti react to the Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya rematch for the UFC middleweight title headlining the April 8 event, Gilbert Burns vs. Jorge Masvidal for the co-main event, Kevin Holland's next bout being booked, will a second title fight still be added with the Burns vs. Masvidal bout coming together as quick as it did, and much more. Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Follow Shaun Al-Shatti: @ShaunAlShatti Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Fox Media podcast network.
0:13.6	My cat here for MMA fighting dot com reacting to some big news on this Friday afternoon.
0:20.1	You have see President Dana White around 445 PM Eastern took to social media made a bit
0:25.9	of a tease said if 5 PM Eastern 2 PM Pacific they were jumping on all the social channels
0:32.0	to make a big announcement and rumors began to speculate.
0:36.9	People are wondering what this could be what was a conomer Gregor related would be related
0:40.8	to the tough rumors we didn't know and then the fact that Dana White was 30 minutes late
0:44.8	I thought he was paying homage to Conomer Gregor before making a Conomer Gregor type announcement
0:49.7	turns out it had nothing to do with Conomer Gregor Dana White screaming into his
0:55.9	lapel mic for both 15 minutes straight revealed a bunch of fights we already knew about
1:01.4	he confirmed Valentino show check over selects a grouse for the woman's flyway title is
1:05.0	the comment event for UFC 285 on March 4th no new additions to UFC 286 in London.
1:11.6	But a lot of questions regarding UFC 287 and the crazy thing is we didn't even get the
1:17.6	major answer to the question that we all wanted to know more on that in a moment but we
1:22.3	found out that the main event for UFC 287 is the rematch between new middleweight champion
1:28.9	Alex Pereira and his long time foe israel adesania coal main event for that card is the returning
1:36.1	Jorge Mazadal he will take on Gilbert Burns we also found out that Kevin Holland will be
1:41.0	taking on Santiago Ponsanibio on that card Adrian Yanis versus Rob Font which we had already
1:45.8	previously reported anyhow a lot to digest here there are other little bits and pieces
1:50.7	of news that Dana announced that we will get to in a moment but joining me in this venture
1:55.2	is Sean al-Shoddy and Sean after what we just heard from Dana White I don't feel like
1:58.8	I'm talking loud enough how are you I don't feel like you're red enough like we got the
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