\u201cThe Red Dragon\u201d is getting Octagon action once again.<\/p>\n
For the second consecutive year, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is heading back to China for a Fight Night, with Shanghai set to host on Aug. 29, 2026.<\/p>\n
Reporter Chris Presnell first shared the news after the Shanghai city bureau released its calendar of sporting events for 2026, officially listing UFC Shanghai.<\/p>\n
In addition, a fifth season of Road to UFC<\/a> has been greenlit. The semifinals for the show will take place a day prior, on Aug. 28, while the opening round is scheduled to kick off in May in Macau, China. For context, the finals for Season 4 of Road to UFC took place at UFC 325<\/a> in Sydney, Australia, and featured four bouts that opened the numbered event on Paramount+.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s UFC Shanghai delivered plenty of action, headlined by Zhang Mingyang vs. Johnny Walker, with Walker earning a second-round stoppage victory (watch highlights<\/a>). The co-main event saw Aljamain Sterling defeat Brian Ortega via unanimous decision<\/a>. Other notable results included Charles Johnson knocking out Lone\u2019er Kavanagh (watch highlights<\/a>), Kyle Daukaus earning a return knockout win over Michael Pereira (watch it<\/a>), and Sergei Pavlovich outpointing Waldo Cortes-Acosta.<\/p>\n Can Weili Zhang make her return to China for this card?<\/p>\n To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Red Dragon\u201d is getting Octagon action once again. For the second consecutive year, the Ultimate Fighting Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146],"class_list":["post-384012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}