The main event of the evening is UFC against the parents of the east coast of small children

Deployment

Last Saturday, the UFC put together a convincing fighting card for fighting night and fit Bantamweight Cory Sandhagen and Deiseon Figueiedo in the main event, while the alumnus of Penn State Wrestling, Alumnus Bo Nickal, the co-main slot against the Dutch Grappling Assistant, Reinier de Ridder. In view of the local angle and the unbeaten record of Nickal, I assume that many MMA fans in the Philadelphia region caught it in their calendars.

As always, the problem is that the main ticket started our time at 10 p.m. When RDR and Nickal made it to the Oktagon, it was 12:16 p.m. the Sandhagen/Figgy fight only 12:42 p.m. and only ended at 1:03 a.m.

At the risk of sounding like a washed old man, it is brutal to stop for these fights. I have a 6 -year -old and a 3 -year -old who rushed me on most Saturdays, and when you go to bed at 8:30 p.m., I may have 2.5 hours in my tank. I will often stay awake, watch Phils or Union and then not laugh around 11:30 p.m. because they will be when they are 40 years old.

So it is 1 a.m., you sleep on the couch, and when the fights end, you have about 6 hours of sleep Max before the children wake up to Bluey and snacks at 7 a.m., and now you have to survive another full weekend with the scamps.

It has been like that for a long time. Boxing cards also start late and end late. Many fights take place in Vegas, so that they give the PST home at 7:00 p.m. We get a 10 p.m. This helps Sportbars, who welcome customers during their main lessons and at the same time allow the MLB, NBA and College football games on Saturday. Game.

But last weekend was CST local. It was in Iowa and we still had an EST card at 10 p.m. A few months ago, UFC had an absolutely ridiculous payment per point of view when Belal Muhammad fought against Leon Edwards in England at 5 a.m. because the event was built for American time windows. It was absolute garbage, as the British say. It seems that we get something in PA, New Jersey or Delaware, which begins before 10 p.m. when they fight in the Middle East or Australia, or there is a smaller fighting card for fighting night on the UFC APEX in Vegas.

Here is another good example:

This weekend, at UFC 315 in Montreal, we have an east coast map from 10 p.m. So if we want to see Muhammad defending Jack Della Maddalena, we will stay again until 1 a.m. and then make the world's biggest pot of coffee on Sunday morning. It doesn't have to be like that!

So I ask Dana White or everyone who will listen. Please consider your east coast fans with young children for God's love. We will be cooked until 11 p.m. on Saturday evening. The batteries are exhausted. All you have to do is start these main tickets starting times at 9 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. Pacific.

Fight out of the blue corner! It is the UFC! And fights out of the red corner! … is a washed thousand -year -old attempt to stay awake.

I feel like Sir Smoke-A-Lot from half baked. “God, if you listen, help!”

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia Sports Sport since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 Sports Department and began with the union during the team's 2010 opening season. He went to the academic power plants of the Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. E -mail – k.kinkeead@sportradar.com