{"id":933179,"date":"2026-10-19T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933179\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:52:09","slug":"ufc-336-announced-for-return-to-toronto-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933179\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 336 announced for return to Toronto in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC is back in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The promotion announced Saturday during the UFC Edmonton broadcast that UFC 336 is set to take place at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">See the announcement below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This marks the first UFC event in Toronto since January 2024, which was headlined by a middleweight championship main event between Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland in which du Plessis narrowly won a split decision to claim the title. In the co-main event, Raquel Pennington defeated Mayra Bueno Silva to win a vacant bantamweight championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">No bouts have been announced yet for UFC 336, the eighth numbered event to take place in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to partner with the Ministry of Sport and bring UFC back to Toronto,\u201d UFC CEO Dana White said in a press release. \u201cI love Canada and Toronto has been home to some of the biggest moments in UFC history. It\u2019s always incredible to put on an event there, and I am excited to get back next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is back in Toronto. The promotion announced Saturday during the UFC Edmonton broadcast that UFC 336&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-933179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933179","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=933179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}