In total, a UFC Event typically lasts about six hours, from the time the early prelims start until the main card fights finish. Early prelims usually start about p. The schedule is always fixed so that the prelims start around p. So, be ready to start around p. This covers all the basics when each segment of a UFC event is concerned. Now, let us analyse something else.
And it has happened before, even in a very surprising manner! We are going to talk about the longest and the shortest UFC events in the history of the organisation, so that you can see the contrast.
Not counting the initial UFC events that featured a knockout system of fights and not the tripartite structure the events count today, the shortest UFC event was the UFC , held in Rio de Janeiro in What happened was the following — out of 10 fights, only three went to the distance, the three being the only early prelim and two prelim fights, lasting 15 minutes each. One main card fight did reach the third round, but was interrupted after about two minutes into it.
The six remaining matches all ended quickly in the first round, with three of them ending in under 90 seconds! The five main card fights lasted just 23 minutes, so less than one full five round match! Although the viewers saw a lot of great fights, the fact that the whole thing ended so quickly was a bit disappointing. In contrast, the longest UFC event in history lasted a full 7 hours! We've seen new champions crowned, current titleholders turn back challengers and a pair of non-title main events steal the show on PPV.
Then in July, Poirier was on his way to winning the first round of the trilogy when McGregor's leg snapped underneath him. The two, along with Dana White, have already said a fourth fight will likely happen. Plus, Alexander Volkanovski reminded why he may be one of the best featherweights of all time with a wild win over Brian Ortega that saw the champ need to escape multiple submission attempts. And year-old Glover Teixeira joined elite company with his second-round submission of Jan Blachowicz to claim the light heavyweight title, becoming the oldest first-time champ in promotional history.
Then in November, a pair of champions retained their titles in tactical brawls. This means that if you watch a UFC event at a sports bar, you save yourself about an hour and a half of watch time. Since the Early Prelims are not shown at sports bars, the earliest fight a sports bar shows will be at pm, which is the time at which regular Prelims start. And because a UFC event typically ends a bit after am, the event will last about 4 hours at a sports bar from 8 pm — 12 am.
It is possible for a UFC event to end earlier than anticipated, reducing the length from the 6-hour average. This occurs when many of the main event fights end in an early stoppage. Of the five fights on the main card, four of them ended in first-round stoppage, while the fifth ended in a third-round stoppage. The combined fight time in total for the five fights was 23 minutes and 22 seconds!
That is a very short fight time for a main card. To put it in perspective, the maximum scheduled fight time for those five bouts was 1 hour and 25 minutes! The UFC main card ended after less than 2 hours, and the entire event lasted less than 6 hours from start to finish.
In local time, this means the main event started at pm, and ended at around pm, very early for a UFC event. A main event that goes the full allotted time can last almost three hours. This can cause the event to last much longer than the 6-hour average. The main card lasted 3 hours, and the entire event lasted 7 hours from start to finish. In local time, that main event would have been from pm to am. These sections are ordered by the excitement and anticipation for the fights in them.
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