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November 12, 2024
The
Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to London for an
event early next year.
The Las Vegas-based promotion announced on Tuesday that it will
hold a card at the O2 Arena on March 2022. It will mark the 30th
UFC event to be held in the United Kingdom. No bouts were confirmed
for the event. It appears that it will be a UFC Fight Night rather
than a pay-per-view.
Based on a social media post from the UFC, it seems likely that the
event will be held in prime time locally, rather than at a time to
accommodate viewers in the United States. That was an issue for the
promotion’s most recent visit to England for UFC
304, as it took place early in the morning rather than at
night.
The O2 was the site for two UFC events in 2023. UFC 286 saw
Leon
Edwards retain his welterweight crown with a split-decision
triumph over Kamaru
Usman in a trilogy bout, while UFC Fight Night 224 was
headlined by Tom
Aspinall’s first-round TKO of Marcin
Tybura. The promotion’s lone visit to England in 2024 was the
aforementioned UFC 304, which took place a the Co-op Live in
Manchester.