Context

UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on January 24, 2021 at the Etihad Arena on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_257

Content

Tweets gathered from January 22 to 26 which has at least one of the hashtags below

• #UltimateFightingChampionship
• #UFC57
• #UFC
• #Poirier
• #Mcgregor
• #PoirierMcgrego
• #McgregorPoirier
• #ConorMcgregor
• #DustinPoirier
• #MMA
• #UFCFightIsland
• #FightIsland

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tweepy, Twitter, Python, Jupyter, UFC, Kaggle for hosting this dataset, and Microsoft for Azure

Inspiration

This data can be used for sentiment analysis pertaining to the UFC257 event