{"id":811307,"date":"2026-07-19T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811307\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:32:08","slug":"ufc-returning-to-edmonton-for-fight-night-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811307\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC returning to Edmonton for Fight Night in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC is making its way back to Oil Country.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers Place in Edmonton is set to play host to a UFC Fight Night event on Oct. 17, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/2078649500017557880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>No fighters have been announced for the card as of yet. <\/p>\n<p>This will be the fourth time Edmonton has hosted a UFC event, with the last coming back on Nov. 2, 2024, for a Fight Night card headlined by a flyweight bout between Brandon Moreno and Amir Albazi. <\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton event will also be the second Canadian card in 2026, after Winnipeg hosted a Fight Night back in April, headlined by a welterweight fight between Canada&#8217;s Mike Malott and Brazil&#8217;s Gilbert Burns. <\/p>\n<p>Edmonton previously hosted UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar in 2019 and UFC 215: Nunes vs. Shevchenko 2 in 2017. All three previous events were also at Rogers Place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is making its way back to Oil Country. Rogers Place in Edmonton is set to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-811307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811307","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=811307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}