The Elevation of Salt Lake City Affected the Performance of UFC 278 Fighters

The event will take place at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah

Main event will be a welterweight fight between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards.

Although Salt Lake City, at nearly 1290 metres above sea level, can cause competitors' endurance problems.

Because of the area's high altitude and low pressure, the fighters will have less air to breathe.

Both Paulo Costa and Luke Rockhold's performances were clearly exhausted by the final round of the evening's co-main event.

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The UFC's president, Dana White, dismissed concerns about elevation by stating that weather always plays a role in fighting events.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Edwards relocated to Utah two weeks before the fight.

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