UFC 306 goes to function one thing very particular for viewers and attendees.
This Saturday, UFC 306 — branded Riyadh Season Noche UFC — takes place at Sphere in Las Vegas, headlined by a bantamweight title battle between Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvili. The UFC is selling the cardboard as “the best stay sporting occasion of all-time” and so the promotion is pulling out all of the stops to ship on its grand guarantees.
Talking with reporters after the newest episode of Contender Sequence, UFC CEO Dana White revealed among the particulars about this weekend’s occasion, together with a profitable “Easter egg hunt” for followers.
“There’s motion pictures, there’s chapters,” White defined when requested concerning the manufacturing surrounding the occasion. “Every chapter begins earlier than the following battle. So there will likely be a present open, then the primary film will run and it’ll finish on the finish of the battle. Then — we name them ‘worlds’ and the battle will stay inside this world. And the world will evolve whereas the fights are happening, however it will likely be very refined. Clouds will transfer, fires will burn, birds will fly, or regardless of the hell is happening in that point, and it’ll slowly evolve through the battle.
“There are additionally going to be Easter eggs in every one in every of these movies. We’re working it out with authorized proper now, however what I wish to do, if anyone can discover all of the Easter eggs, I’ll provide you with $25,000.”
White confirmed that the deliberate Easter eggs will all be “associated to the present” and added that this particular scavenger hunt will solely happen on the primary card. The prelims will function a setup for the primary card, and the complete present will transfer from “the start of time” and “finish on the future,” all whereas retaining the spirit White supposed from the outset: to be a love letter to Mexico.
“For those who’re Mexican, it is a f*cking Rocky film for you, man,” White stated. “You’re going to come back out of there, and if you happen to’re not, you’re going to want you had been Mexican.”
And when it’s all stated and carried out and the present is within the books, White hopes to have achieved extra than simply ship a as soon as in a lifetime expertise for UFC followers.
“My purpose on this factor is to be nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Grammy,” White stated.