{"id":166367,"date":"2026-04-15T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:18:19","slug":"ufc-330-sees-octagon-return-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166367\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 330 Sees Octagon Return to Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb webpexpress-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wells-Fargo-UFC-Philly-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"UFC Philadelphia\" title=\"Wells Fargo UFC Philly\"\/>UFC Philadelphia &#8211; Wells Fargo Center Credit: Jay Anderson\/Cageside Press<\/p>\n<p>The UFC will return to the City of Brotherly Love this August.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, promotion officials announced that UFC 330 will be held in Philadelphia, PA on August 15, 2026 at the Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The show marks the first UFC date in Philly since 2019, and the first numbered event there since UFC 133 a full 15 years prior to their return, on August 6, 2011. That card was headlined by Rashad Evans and Tito Ortiz, meeting for the second time, and featured names like Vitor Belfort, Rory MacDonald, Alexander Gustafsson, Chad Mendes, and future welterweight champ Johnny Hendricks.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaethje and Edson Barboza headlined the UFC\u2019s 2019 visit to the city.<\/p>\n<p>No fights have been revealed for this year\u2019s trip to Philadelphia. However, UFC CEO and President Dana White, Philly native Pat McAfee, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro were on hand to announce the event on McAfee\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhiladelphia is hosting some of the biggest sporting events this year as part of the celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary,\u201d stated White in a press release issued in conjunction with the announcement. \u201cIt\u2019s been fifteen years since the UFC brought a numbered event to the city, so now is the perfect time to go back. Philadelphia has always been a great fight town, and I can\u2019t wait to return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ticket details are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Philadelphia &#8211; Wells Fargo Center Credit: Jay Anderson\/Cageside Press The UFC will return to the City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75019,75028,75025,75031,75020,75029,75022,68753,68749,68902,75027,75026,48964,69,71,70,75021,75030,75023,74817,75024],"class_list":{"0":"post-166367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-bellator","9":"tag-conor-mcgregor","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-gsp","12":"tag-invicta","13":"tag-jon-jones","14":"tag-lfa","15":"tag-martial-arts","16":"tag-mixed-martial-arts","17":"tag-mma","18":"tag-one-championship","19":"tag-one-fc","20":"tag-pfl","21":"tag-philadelphia","22":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","23":"tag-philadelphia-news","24":"tag-rizin","25":"tag-ronda-rousey","26":"tag-titan-fc","27":"tag-ufc","28":"tag-wsof"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}