The UFC’s third pay-per-view event of the year takes place Saturday with UFC 259 , which goes down at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas and features the most loaded lineup of the year. For just the seventh time in company history, three championship fights are on the docket at a single event, meaning the landscape of the sport has the potential to alter significantly by the end of the weekend. Check below for all the pre-fight facts behind UFC 259, which features Jan Blachowicz (27-8 MMA, 10-5 UFC) vs. Israel Adesanya (20-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) for the light heavyweight title in the main event; Amanda Nunes (20-4 MMA, 13-1 UFC) vs
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UFC 259 pre-event facts: Israel Adesanya’s champ-champ attempt comes with a twist – MMA Junkie