Kamaru Usman, Jorge Masvidal, Michael Bisping, and other MMA stars react as Dana White announces full-capacity crowd for UFC 261

Kamaru Usman, Jorge Masvidal, Michael Bisping, and other MMA stars react as Dana White announces full-capacity crowd for UFC 261

UFC President Dana White went all out and announced huge news on the 16th of March. The announcement surprised everyone as the bossman revealed that UFC 261 will take place in front of a full-capacity audience in Jacksonville. Adding to the factor of the full crowd is the amazing lineup that has three title bouts on the main card. This is the 8th time the main card has 3 title bouts.

The three fights for the title will be, Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal fighting for the welterweight title, women’s flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko goes up against Jessica Andrade, and Zhang Weili vs. Rose Namajunas for the strawweight title.

Since the pandemic, this is the first time in nearly 13 months that the promotion has tried to fill in a full arena of crowd. Dana White dropped a video where he titled it as “We are back”

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Twitter reactions to the big news of UFC 261

The superstar of the UFC 261, Kamaru Usman reacted on twitter to this news by using the hashtag ‘#andstill’ showing his excitement to fight in front of crowd.

https://twitter.com/USMAN84kg/status/1371646320398667781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1371646320398667781%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmajunkie.usatoday.com%2Flists%2Fufc-261-twitter-reacts-announcement-full-crowd-kamaru-usman-jorge-masvidal-valentina-shevchenko-jessica-andrade-zhang-weili-rose-namajunas

The Welterweight title challenger, Jorge Masvidal replied to Kamaru’s tweet with the hashtag ‘#andnew’ hearing the news from Dana White.

UFC and MMA legends like Michael Bisping and Ben Askren too shared their excitement on the new announcement.

UFC reporter Ariel Helwani and Dhiego Lima reacted to Dana’s message.

https://twitter.com/DhLimaMMA/status/1371621518204137473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1371621518204137473%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmmajunkie.usatoday.com%2Flists%2Fufc-261-twitter-reacts-announcement-full-crowd-kamaru-usman-jorge-masvidal-valentina-shevchenko-jessica-andrade-zhang-weili-rose-namajunas

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