Potential UFC South Africa Event in the future.

[ClosetVitorFan]

I could see them doing this in either Joberg or a really beautiful place like Cape Town South Africa. Obviously it would be headlined by DDP. But I imagine the ufc wanting other African fighters on the card such as Usman and Izzy to participate as well.

How would you build a UFC South African card???

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Sounds like the perfect time to bring back JP Buys and Don Madge.

Oh, and a live performance from Die Antwoord!

 

[Ares Black]

Roedie Roets and Mark Hulme from TUF will be signed for it

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

Sounds like the perfect time to bring back JP Buys and Don Madge.

Oh, and a live performance from Die Antwoord!

Hate to use a prowrestling term here. But those are just ufc job guys. Lol..

 

[Egészségére!]

I don't know but with DDP & I assume Usman, Izzy & Gorimbo on there it shouldn't be hard to put together a good card

 

[tornado362]

Here's a mock card:

- Dricus du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland II
- Israel Adesanya vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Kamaru Usman vs. Brady/Burns winner
- Themba Gorimbo vs. Vicente Luque
- David Onama vs. Dan Ige
- Manel Kape vs. Bruno da Silva
- Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Marcin Tybura (if Nzechukwu beats De Lima)
- Sodiq Yusuff vs. Pat Sabatini
- Youssef Zalal vs. Alex Caceres
- Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Bruno Silva
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Cody Stamann
- Carlston Harris vs. Sam Patterson
- Abu Azaitar vs. Robert Bryczek


Reckon this could make a good PPV for early next year, an african fighter in every fight. Some would need to pick up a win before next year to get the opponent listed (David Onama etc.), but this would be a decent PPV


@Siver! not sure if you're also into card builders, but tagged you just in case

 

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[ClosetVitorFan]

Here's a mock card:

- Dricus du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland II
- Israel Adesanya vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Kamaru Usman vs. Brady/Burns winner
- Themba Gorimbo vs. Vicente Luque
- David Onama vs. Dan Ige
- Manel Kape vs. Bruno da Silva
- Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Marcin Tybura (if Nzechukwu beats De Lima)
- Sodiq Yusuff vs. Pat Sabatini
- Youssef Zalal vs. Alex Caceres
- Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Bruno Silva
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Cody Stamann
- Carlston Harris vs. Sam Patterson
- Abu Azaitar vs. Robert Bryczek


Reckon this could make a good PPV for early next year, an african fighter in every fight. Some would need to pick up a win before next year to get the opponent listed (David Onama etc.), but this would be a decent PPV


@Siver! not sure if you're also into card builders, but tagged you just in case

Looks good to me!!!

 

[Ares Black]

Here's a mock card:

- Dricus du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland II
- Israel Adesanya vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Kamaru Usman vs. Brady/Burns winner
- Themba Gorimbo vs. Vicente Luque
- David Onama vs. Dan Ige
- Manel Kape vs. Bruno da Silva
- Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Marcin Tybura (if Nzechukwu beats De Lima)
- Sodiq Yusuff vs. Pat Sabatini
- Youssef Zalal vs. Alex Caceres
- Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Bruno Silva
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Cody Stamann
- Carlston Harris vs. Sam Patterson
- Abu Azaitar vs. Robert Bryczek

A card in South Africa with only two South African fighters??

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

A card in South Africa with only two South African fighters??

Beat me to it. I don't know SA's relations with the rest of the continent, but a majority Nigerian card might not go down the best?

 

[Ares Black]

Beat me to it. I don't know SA's relations with the rest of the continent, but a majority Nigerian card might not go down the best?

I'm sure the UFC would put as many African fighters as they could, but they would also definitely sign a bunch of South African prospects to full up the undercard.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Beat me to it. I don't know SA's relations with the rest of the continent, but a majority Nigerian card might not go down the best?

And wait a minute, Carlston Harris is from Guyana which is in South America. And Abu Azaitar was born in Germany!

 

[Domitian]

Imagine thinking UFC is going to South Africa.

 

[Koala]

I could see them doing this in either Joberg or a really beautiful place like Cape Town South Africa. Obviously it would be headlined by DDP. But I imagine the ufc wanting other African fighters on the card such as Usman and Izzy to participate as well.

How would you build a UFC South African card???

Only modern indoor arena is in Pretoria, 1 hour from JoBurg
This is where the EFC, the main local MMA org hosts its cards

Card:
- DDP vs Strickland
- Usman vs Garry
- Kape vs Steve Erceg
- JC Lamprecht vs Belgaroui (if he's signed on DWCS) or Navajo Sterling (if he's signed on DWCS)
- Cameron Saaiman vs Musasa (if he's signed on DWCS) or Ricky Turcios
- Mark Hulme vs Thempa Gorimbo
- Kubanza vs Njokuani
- Ndebele vs Yanis Ghemmouri
- Zulu vs Felipe dos Santos
- Roedie Ruts vs Manolo Zecchini
- Biko vs Mitch Raposo
- JP Kruger vs Chad Hanekom

 

[tornado362]

A card in South Africa with only two South African fighters??

Worked with current UFC Fighters, not too familiar of the regional scene. Other than Mark Hulme and Roedie Roets, who don’t seem like they’re being signed anytime soon.. and JP Buys… well

As far as I’m concerned (correct me if I’m wrong), there’s never been a UFC event in Africa. So if they go to South Africa, I see it as more of a celebration of the continent, rather than just being there to showcase South Africa itself. That can come later when they’re more established in the continent

 

[tornado362]

And wait a minute, Carlston Harris is from Guyana which is in South America. And Abu Azaitar was born in Germany!

Azaitar represents morocco and pretty sure Harris has connections to Mozambique.

Worked with what I had, Usman is from Nebraska and izzy reps New Zealand too

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Here's a mock card:

- Dricus du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland II
- Israel Adesanya vs. Jiri Prochazka
- Kamaru Usman vs. Brady/Burns winner
- Themba Gorimbo vs. Vicente Luque
- David Onama vs. Dan Ige
- Manel Kape vs. Bruno da Silva
- Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Marcin Tybura (if Nzechukwu beats De Lima)
- Sodiq Yusuff vs. Pat Sabatini
- Youssef Zalal vs. Alex Caceres
- Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Bruno Silva
- Cameron Saaiman vs. Cody Stamann
- Carlston Harris vs. Sam Patterson
- Abu Azaitar vs. Robert Bryczek


Reckon this could make a good PPV for early next year, an african fighter in every fight. Some would need to pick up a win before next year to get the opponent listed (David Onama etc.), but this would be a decent PPV


@Siver! not sure if you're also into card builders, but tagged you just in case

Yeah man, based on what the UFC has in house (which is going to be critical and make up at least 75 % of the card) I think this pretty much nails it.

The main event is nailed on if it happened soon, the co-main is an absolute banger, and would garner huge excitement. Usman's gotta be there, but it can't be against an elite guy (maybe Colby for the shits and giggles?).

Only modern indoor arena is in Pretoria, 1 hour from JoBurg
This is where the EFC, the main local MMA org hosts its cards

Card:
- DDP vs Strickland
- Usman vs Garry
- Kape vs Steve Erceg
- JC Lamprecht vs Belgaroui (if he's signed on DWCS) or Navajo Sterling (if he's signed on DWCS)
- Cameron Saaiman vs Musasa (if he's signed on DWCS) or Ricky Turcios
- Mark Hulme vs Thempa Gorimbo
- Kubanza vs Njokuani
- Ndebele vs Yanis Ghemmouri
- Zulu vs Felipe dos Santos
- Roedie Ruts vs Manolo Zecchini
- Biko vs Mitch Raposo
- JP Kruger vs Chad Hanekom

But I like this idea too, getting some local talent in there - but I'm not sure they would go quite so n00b-heavy, but it's good shit from Koala as usual.

This is certainly more the level of UFC Noche, though, which is going to be far more reliant on 'sizzle' than meaningful fights.

What can I add? Well, I dunno really, perhaps if Kamaru is on there he smuggles his little (big) brother on:

Muhammad Usman vs Hamdy Abdelwahab, maybe, in an all-African fight?
I can see them drawing from France, too, so Oumar Sy vs someone (depending on results), you could perhaps replace Carlston Harris with that, but I think you're both bang on here.

 

[Koala]

BTW Fiorot is well known in the local MMA scene
She fought in EFC and won the local version of TUF
the onlyfan girl that fought in Manchester is also an alumnus of EFC

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

So long as vuvuzela's are banned, go for it

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Worked with current UFC Fighters, not too familiar of the regional scene. Other than Mark Hulme and Roedie Roets, who don’t seem like they’re being signed anytime soon.. and JP Buys… well

As far as I’m concerned (correct me if I’m wrong), there’s never been a UFC event in Africa. So if they go to South Africa, I see it as more of a celebration of the continent, rather than just being there to showcase South Africa itself. That can come later when they’re more established in the continent

For celebrating the continent the optics would be better with Ghana or Botswana.

Niger for troll points?