Another lengthy wait for fight fans in North Texas will soon come to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time since 2022<\/a>, the UFC is returning to Dallas as American Airlines Center is set to host “UFC Fight Night”\u00a0on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2027, the organization informs The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n A main event announcement will come at a later date, and tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, Nov. 20 at\u00a0Ticketmaster.com<\/a>. Fans can register for presale access at UFC.com\/Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n The last UFC event held in Dallas was “UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2<\/a>,” which took place in front of 19,442 fans on July 30, 2022. Amanda Nunes defeated Julianna Pena<\/a> via unanimous decision in the main event\u00a0to recapture the UFC women’s bantamweight championship.<\/p>\n UFC 277 still stands as the highest grossing single-night event in American Airlines Center history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another lengthy wait for fight fans in North Texas will soon come to an end.\u00a0 For the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,104382,89489,87998,160472],"class_list":["post-475704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-boxing","tag-tp-american-airlines-center","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}