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December 9, 2022
In the next few months, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is venturing out
beyond the walls of the UFC Apex more and more.
At the end of the
UFC 282 press conference on Thursday, the organization announced
the majority of its fight card lineup from January to March 2023.
Notably, the promotion did not mention a jaunt to South
Korea on Feb. 4 that already has several fights on the books.
Three of the first six UFC events of next year will go down in Las
Vegas, with three shows at the UFC Apex on
Jan. 14, Feb.
18 and
Feb. 25. The others will be international, with Rio de
Janeiro and
Perth, Australia, already confirmed.
The UFC formalized the date and location of UFC 285
in its announcement as well, which will take place on March 4 at
the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The following week, the promotion
will remain in Las Vegas, but it will take to a venue it has never
staged a fight card:
The Theater at Virgin Hotels. It will be the first UFC card
held in the βFight Capital of the Worldβ not at the UFC Apex or
T-Mobile Arena since the finale of the 26th season of βThe Ultimate
Fighter,β which went down at the Park Theater in December 2017.
Following that new Vegas locale, the organization will return to
London for the
recently released UFC 286
show on March 18. Although it was discussed previously that a
pay-per-view offering in London could lay claim to a soccer
stadium, it will instead post up in its familiar venue of the O2
Arena. Finally, March
25 will see a UFC Fight Night event inside of the AT&T
Center in San Antonio, Texas. It will be the first UFC card in this
south Texas city since UFC on ESPN 4, which went down in July
2019.