Kevin De Bruyne was in attendance at UFC 294 sitting entrance row at the shell out-per-look at party as he proceeds to get well from a hamstring personal injury.
The Manchester Metropolis talisman has been on the sidelines considering the fact that August following remaining pressured off after just 22 minutes during the club’s Leading League opening working day win in opposition to Burnley.
But though his teammates returned to successful approaches from Brighton at the Etihad, their captain was additional than 3500 miles absent looking at an fully distinctive form of action unfold in Abu Dhabi.
Pictured along with City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak during the function, De Bruyne sat entrance row to view the event headlined by Islam Makhachev’s small-recognize UFC Light-weight World Championship defence against reigning featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski.
In a video clip posted to the UFC’s social media accounts, the 32-calendar year-outdated expressed his excitement at remaining cageside for the fights.
Kevin De Bruyne sat cageside for the UFC 284 pay back-for every-watch in Abu Dhabi on Saturday evening
The Person Town captain was pictured along with club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the event
Islam Makhachev knocked out Alexander Volkanovski in the event’s headline bout
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‘Hi men, Kevin below. I am at the Abu Dhabi UFC fights, are unable to hold out to see the video games. Love.’ He stated.
The Belgium international was addressed to an array of prime talent at the Etihad Arena in the Emirati cash, in a card that had gone through sizeable upheaval thanks to accidents approaching combat night time.
Just after a staph infection compelled Paulo Costa to withdraw from his co-main function bout with surging contender Khamzat Chimaev, previous welterweight champion Kamaru Usman was identified as upon to take on the undefeated star.
In spite of acquiring minor time to put together for his debut in the bodyweight class, Usman done commendly towards the undefeated Chimaev, with equally fighters obtaining their times in a back-and-forth struggle in excess of 15 minutes in advance of Chimaev obtained the nod on the judges’ scorecards.
Then in a principal function once again featuring a limited-discover replacement, Volkanovski once again attempted to turn out to be a two-excess weight globe winner following coming near to defeating Makhachev back again in February.
This time even so, the defending winner left no question in the final result as he landed a devastating head kick in the first round to make the second defence of his light-weight title.