The Octagon is headed BACK to Macau #UFCMacau is locked in for Nov 23 at Macau Galaxy Arena!
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— UFC (@ufc) August 15, 2024
After over 10 years away, the Ultimate Fighting Championship will be heading back to the “Las Vegas of the East.”
Per the organization on Wednesday night, a UFC Fight Night event on Nov. 23 is planned for the Galaxy Arena in Macau, China. This non-pay-per-view offering will serve as the organization’s first trip to the special administrative region in China since UFC Fight Night 48 in 2014. While that last event was held in the Cotai Arena, the promotion has upgraded to the Galaxy Arena, which serves as Macau’s largest indoor arena sporting 16,000 seats. No fights have been announced as of yet.
Once in 2012 and twice in 2014, the company traveled to Macau to stage an event. Cung Le sparked Rich Franklin in the inaugural Macau show, which also was the first UFC event in China. It came back to pit Dong Hyun Kim against John Hathaway to conclude the Chinese season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” and then the most recent card saw Michael Bisping dismantle Le. All three of the previous UFC Macau shows have concluded with headliners scoring “Performance of the Night”-worthy knockouts.
