The UFC’s prepared go back to China will need to wait up until 2024.
The approaching card on Dec. 9 initially arranged in Shanghai, China is now anticipated to move back to Las Vegas with the occasion happening at the UFC APEX.
Several individuals with understanding of the promo’s strategies verified the news to MMA Fighting on Wednesday. Mixed martial arts supervisor Shu Hirata initially revealed the news on Twitter.
The UFC has actually made no main statement about the switch or why the occasion will no longer occur in China.
The card is anticipated to stay the very same with Tune Yadong dealing with Chris Gutierrez in the primary occasion.
Over the previous couple of years, the UFC has actually continued broadening even more and even more into the Asian market with a specific concentrate on China. The UFC opened a Performance Institute in China while likewise promoting Road to the UFC, which concentrates on up and coming potential customers contending to make an area on the primary lineup.
The card initially set up in Shanghai was anticipated to be the UFC’s very first card in China because 2019 when Zhang Weili declared the strawweight title with a sensational knockout over Jessica Andrade
The worldwide pandemic closed down a great deal of the UFC’s travel to worldwide areas however this was anticipated to act as the promo’s push back into China.
It appears those strategies will have to wait up until a later date now that the UFC Fight Night card on Dec. 9 is anticipated to take location in Las Vegas.
Mike Heck added to this report.
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