{"id":476884,"date":"2026-10-26T06:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476884\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:11:27","slug":"ufc-returns-to-dallas-for-fight-night-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476884\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC returns to Dallas for Fight Night event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The UFC is headed back to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday, during UFC 333, the world\u2019s leading MMA promotion announced that it will return to the heart of Texas for UFC Dallas on Jan. 16, a Fight Night card at the American Airlines Center. No fights have been announced for the event yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This will be the UFC\u2019s seventh trip to Dallas, with all previous events taking place at the American Airlines Center. The promotion most recently visited the city for UFC 277 on July 30, 2022, the pay-per-view event headlined by a women\u2019s bantamweight title rematch between Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pe\u00f1a that Nunes won via unanimous decision. The card was co-headlined by an interim flyweight title fight between Brandon Moreno and Kai Kara-France that Moreno won via third-round TKO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC Dallas will also be the first event of the UFC\u2019s 2027 calendar, ending the now-traditional holiday break the promotion usually takes from mid-December to mid-January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is headed back to Dallas. On Saturday, during UFC 333, the world\u2019s leading MMA promotion announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1194,38902,38903],"class_list":["post-476884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-latest-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476884","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=476884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}