The
Ultimate Fighting Championship is taking to an old stomping
ground not reached in a decade.

The organization announced on
Friday that it was making its return to the 514 for UFC 315, which
will take place on May 10 inside of the city’s Bell Centre. No
fights have been announced for the pay-per-view offering in
Quebec’s largest city yet. It will be the first time the UFC has
traveled to Montreal since UFC 186 in 2015.

At that fight card that April, Demetrious
Johnson landed a buzzer-beater armbar on Kyoji
Horiguchi to defend his flyweight strap. It was initially
slated to be headlined by T.J.
Dillashaw vs. Renan Barao,
but the former fell out of the matchup due to injury. In the
co-main attraction on UFC 186, Quinton
Jackson threw down with Fabio
Maldonado in a pre-planned catchweight contest at 215 pounds.
Local fighters throughout the evening fared well, with only
Chris
Clements losing against a foreign adversary while four others
scored wins.

With this event booked in May, Montreal will once again be the city
where the UFC has traveled to the most inside of Canada. The city
has hosted numerous fight cards, starting in 2008 when Matt Serra
rematched Georges St.
Pierre for welterweight gold. Other notable UFC main
attractions in Montreal include Anderson
Silva vs. Thales
Leites, Lyoto
Machida vs. Mauricio Rua
2 and “GSP” later defending that belt against Josh
Koscheck.

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By IMAK ADMIN

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