It has been a steady ascent for Kattar (22-4, 13 finishes) from a prelim fighter suffering his first career loss to James Jones at that EliteXC event to the main stage of network television, competing for eyeballs with the first half of the Rams-Packers NFL Divisional Round playoff matchup. It’s a pretty cool checkpoint.” Max Holloway (left) and Calvin Kattar (right) face off ahead of their UFC on ABC fight Zuffa LLC via Getty Images But fast forward now we’re fighting on ABC, it’s pretty wild to now be the first main event on live television. learned a lot, and since then it’s been a long road. “It was a cool opportunity,” Kattar, now 32, told The Post in a phone interview last week. The Methuen, Massachusetts native appreciates participating in these historic events in the sport’s young history.
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Kattar’s career truly has come full circle in the last 12 ½ years as he prepares to face Max Holloway in a five-round, non-title fight at featherweight. Why the history lesson? It’s because Calvin Kattar, one half of Saturday’s main event in the octagon, was a 20-year-old prospect on the online-aired preliminary bouts the night Slice, who died at age 42 in 2016, drew a peak of 6.51 million viewers to CBS. Mixed martial arts doesn’t have a long history with the big four networks, with the first primetime-aired event coming not from the UFC, but the now-defunct EliteXC on and headlined by the former YouTube sensation Kimbo Slice. ET main card broadcast comes a little over two years since the final Fox-aired event on Dec. The UFC’s debut on ABC this Saturday from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi marks its return to network television.
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