If you’re a UFC fan and you live in Knoxville (or the surrounding area), you’re in luck!
EA Sports’ UFC College Tour is scheduled to make two stops for upcoming UFC fights. The stops will give fans the chance to play the new EA Sports UFC game on Playstation 4, while watching the big fight.
Here’s the full press release from EA Sports, including the dates of the stops.
"WATCH AND FEEL THE FIGHT WITH THE EA SPORTS™ UFC® COLLEGE TOUR SPONSORED BY MUSCLEPHARM! Watch UFC Pay-Per-View Events and Win Bragging Rights with EA SPORTS™ UFC!Want to get your hands on EA SPORTS UFC and watch some UFC Pay-Per-View events this fall? Love to compete against other students for awesome prizes and merchandise? Look no further, EA SPORTS UFC is bringing you all the action to your campus with the UFC College Tour sponsored by MusclePharm.The EA SPORTS™ UFC College Tour will be hitting 30 college campuses across the United States to give college fans the chance to play EA SPORTS™ UFC on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system while watching UFC Pay-Per-View events at a local sports bar/restaurant. Join us and FEEL THE FIGHT for yourself.The EA SPORTS™ UFC College Tour will be stopping in Knoxville, TV at Twin Peaks for the following dates and UFC Pay-Per-View events. Come out early to get in the game and feel the fight with EA SPORTS™ UFC!Saturday November 15th @ 10pm ET/ 7pm PT: UFC 180 Velasquez vs. Werdum Saturday December 6th @ 10pm ET /7pm PT: UFC 181 Hendricks vs. Lawler Learn more about EA SPORTS™ UFC and the College Tour through the EA SPORTS™ UFC Twitter Feed and Facebook Page or visit the official EA SPORTS™ UFC Website. Please find Rules and Regulations here.EA SPORTS™ UFC – With its first new major sports league partnership in over a decade, EA SPORTS presents EA SPORTS UFC. The next-generation of fighting has been built for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles by the team behind the critically-acclaimed EA SPORTS Fight Night franchise. Powered by EA SPORTS IGNITE technology, EA SPORTS UFC brings the action, emotion and intensity inside the Octagon™ to life in ways that were never before possible. The next-generation of True Player Motion not only showcases the diverse, powerful and fluid of attacks of elite mixed martial artists through Precision Movement, Dynamic Striking and Strategic Submission Battles, but also brings the combatants to life with Full Body Deformation and Real-Time Exertion. The simulation of Human Intelligence takes leaps forward with the strategic and adaptive MMAi system and is expressed through the most realistic characters ever created in a sports game. Step into the Octagon™ with the most realistic take on fighting ever achieved. Powered by EA SPORTS IGNITE technology, every fighter, strike, takedown and submission will make you feel the fight."
So after you check out the Kentucky/Tennessee game on Saturday afternoon, make plans to head down to Twin Peaks for the first Knoxville stop of the EA Sports UFC College Tour!