{"id":118471,"date":"2025-09-04T04:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:52:06","slug":"ufc-signs-4-year-deal-to-hosts-3-fights-in-macau-after-resounding-success-of-2024-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118471\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC signs 4-year deal to hosts 3 fights in Macau after \u2018resounding success\u2019 of 2024 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">UFC and Galaxy Macau have signed a new four-year deal, with the world\u2019s top MMA organisation committing to hosting three fight nights in the casino city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a statement on Thursday, UFC said the partnership followed what it called \u201cthe resounding success\u201d of last year\u2019s Yan v Figueiredo clash, which was the promotion\u2019s fourth event in Macau since 2012.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dana White, UFC President and CEO, said the agreement with the hotel, which runs from next year through 2029, could not have \u201ccome at a better time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019ve just returned from China and everything about it was incredible \u2013 the culture, the people and the athletes,\u201d White added. \u201cIt\u2019s great for fight fans in China and massive for the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Included in the first fight week for this multi-year agreement will be the opening round of Season 5 of Road to UFC, which has given 18 Asian fighters, including Chinese stand-outs Zhang Mingyang, Shi Ming and Wang Cong, their breaks in the sport.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As part of the agreement, every event will be held at Galaxy Arena, which is Macau\u2019s largest indoor sporting venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC and Galaxy Macau have signed a new four-year deal, with the world\u2019s top MMA organisation committing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,95,10359,641,66012,66007,66006,66011,66009,638,23378,66013,82,640,66008,66010,50876],"class_list":{"0":"post-118471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-dana-white","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-galaxy-arena","14":"tag-galaxy-entertainment-group","15":"tag-galaxy-macau","16":"tag-kevin-kelley","17":"tag-macau","18":"tag-mma","19":"tag-road-to-ufc","20":"tag-shi-ming","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-ufc","23":"tag-wang-cong","24":"tag-yan-v-figueiredo","25":"tag-zhang-mingyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}