Separately, UFC Fight Night 55 and UFC Fight Night 56 aren’t much to look at, being top-heavy as most cable-TV and Internet-streamed cards are. But toss them together, and you’ve got a pretty entertaining handful of fights – if you’re willing to tune in on back-to-back evenings. UFC Fight Night 55, which streams live tonight in the U.S. on UFC Fight Pass, marks the promotion’s annual trip Down Under — and its fourth trip to Sydney at Allphones Arena — as it keeps a foothold in a market with divided feelings on cage fighting . The octagon is still illegal in Western Australia, but this past December’s UFC Fight Night 33 event showed Aussies still turn out for a fight, and the promotion certainly delivered when Antonio Silva and Mark Hunt squared off. UFC Fight Night 56, meanwhile, touches down Saturday in a new city, the whimsically named Uberlandia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, which sits a short drive away from previous stops in Belo Horizonte and Brasilia (the event takes place at Ginasio Municipal Tancredo Neves, with main card fights airing on FOX Sports 1 following prelims on FOX Sports 2 and UFC Fight Pass)
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10 reasons to reserve your weekend for UFC Fight Night 55 and 56 – MMA Junkie