The Ultimate Fighting Championship capped another great year with UFC 124 setting a North American MMA record 23,152 attendees for a live gate of $4.586 million.
The event featured a rematch between UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and Josh Koscheck on December 11, 2010 at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Seeking out to prove that mixed-martial arts is now bigger (and more profitable) than boxing, the UFC has laid out its schedule for the next year, 2011.
The largest MMA promotion in the world typically holds a pay-per-view event every month from the USA. Events held at other international locations (like Canada, England and Abu Dhabi) are usually organized every two months. It can be either shown on pay-per-view or for free at the Spike TV channel.
There are also minor events dubbed as “UFC Fight Night” cards and “The Ultimate Fighter Finale” which is the culmination of its reality TV show “The Ultimate Fighter” held twice a year. Both can be seen exclusively for free at the Spike TV channel.
Check out below the UFC schedule to watch out for in 2011. This post will be updated from time to time to reflect any changes.
NOTE: TBA means “To Be Announced”.
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JANUARY
UFC 125: Resolution
Date: January 1, 2011
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Plot: Frankie Edgar defends his UFC Lightweight Championship title against number one contender Gray Maynard in a rematch. Due to the UFC/WEC merger, the winner of this bout will face the winner of the Ben Henderson vs Anthony Pettis fight for a title unification bout.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC: Fight For The Troops 2 (UFC Fight Night 23)
Date: January 22, 2011
Venue: Fort Hood, Killen, Texas, USA
Plot: Melvin Guillard faces Evan Dunham in a Lightweight bout.
TV: Spike TV
FEBRUARY
UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort
Date: February 5, 2011
Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Plot: UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva defends his title against former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch
Date: February 27, 2011
Venue: Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia
Plot: Former UFC Welterweight Champion B.J. Penn looks to reclaim his crown when he faces #2 contender Jon Fitch in a bout that might determine current champion Georges St-Pierre’s next opponent.
TV: Pay-per-view
MARCH
UFC Live: Sanchez vs. Kampmann (UFC on Versus 3)
Date: March 3, 2011
Venue: The O2, Dublin, Ireland
Plot: The Ultimate Fighter Season 1 winner Diego “The Dream” Sanchez faces #6 ranked welterweight in the world by Sherdog, and the #7 by Yahoo! Sports Martin “Hitman” Kampmann.
TV: Spike TV
UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones
Date: March 19, 2011
Venue: Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Plot: UFC Light Heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua defends his title against upcoming fighter Jon Jones.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis (UFC Fight Night 24)
Date: March 26, 2011
Venue: Key Arena in Seattle, Washington, USA
Plot: Antonio Rogerio Nogueira faces Phil Davis in a Light Heavyweight matchup.
TV: Spike TV
APRIL
UFC 129: St-Pierre vs. Shields
Date: April 30, 2011
Venue: Rogers Centre Prudential Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Plot: UFC Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre defends his title against former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Jake Shields.
TV: Pay-per-view
MAY
UFC 130: Rampage vs. Hamill
Date: May 28, 2011
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Plot: Quinton “Rampage” Jackson meets Matt Hamill in a Light Heavyweight matchup.
TV: Pay-per-view
JUNE
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale
Date: June 4, 2011
Venue: Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Plot: Featured will be the finalists from The Ultimate Fighter 13 – Team Lesnar vs Team Dos Santos in the Welterweight division. It’s Ramsey Nijem vs Tony Ferguson. In the co-main event, Anthony Pettis makes his UFC debut against veteran Clay Guida.
TV: Spike TV
UFC 131: dos Santos vs. Carwin
Date: June 11, 2011
Venue: Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Plot: A bout between Junior Dos Santos and Shane Carwin will headline the event. The winner of the fight is expected to face off against current heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC Live: Kongo vs Barry
Date: June 26, 2011
Venue: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Cheick Kongo faces Pat Barry in a non-title Heavyweight bout.
TV: Spike TV
JULY
UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber 2
Date: July 2, 2011
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Plot: Dominick Cruz defends his Bantamweight Championship title from Urijah Faber
TV: Pay-per-view
AUGUST
UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2
Date: August 6, 2011
Venue: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Two former Light Heavyweight Champions in Rashad Evans and Tito Ortiz face-off in a rematch set four years after their first match at UFC 73 on July 2007.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC Live 5: Hardy vs Lytle (UFC on Versus 5)
Date: August 14, 2011
Venue: Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Plot: Dan Hardy faces Chris Lytle in a Welterweight title-elimination bout.
TV: Spike TV
UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami
Date: August 27, 2011
Venue: HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot: TBA
TV: Pay-per-view
SEPTEMBER
UFC Fight Night: Shields vs. Ellenberger
Date: September 17, 2011
Venue: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Plot: Jake Shields meets Jake Ellenberger in a UFC Welterweight title-elimination bout.
TV: Spike TV
UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage
Date: September 24, 2011
Venue: Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado
Plot: Jon Jones defends his UFC Light Heavyweight title for the first time against former champion Rampage Jackson.
TV: Pay-per-view
OCTOBER
UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson
Date: October 1, 2011
Venue: Verizon Center, Washington D.C.
Plot: Dominick Cruz defends his UFC Bantamweight title against Demetrious Johnson.
TV: Versus
UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard III
Date: October 8, 2011
Venue: Toyota Center, Houston, Texas
Plot: Frankie Edgar defends his UFC Lightweight title against Gray Maynard. This will be the third meeting between the two fighters.
TV: Pay-per-view
UFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Condit
Date: October 29, 2011
Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
Plot: Georges St-Pierre defends his UFC Welterweight title against Carlos Condit.
TV: Pay-per-view
NOVEMBER
schedule to be updated
DECEMBER
schedule to be updated
Check back here from time to time for updates.
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December 14th, 2010 at 1:21 am
nice schedule!!
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December 17th, 2010 at 1:13 am
08/27/2011
UFC Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
Best card to be made ever!!!!
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ark Reply:
December 17th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Really? That’s cool!
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Jose Pedro Reply:
December 18th, 2010 at 8:18 am
I saw the whole press conference in Rio, and I think that there will be at least 2 title defenses along with excellent brazilian fighters.
I could abstract some thing from Dana Whites interview:
A fight between Cain Velasquez and Junior Cigano, Lyoto vs. Anderson and Minotauro vs. MIr 2.
An ultimate fighter with team brazil vs. team USA
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ark Reply:
December 18th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I heard the first UFC champion Royce Gracie is fighting too. Any truth to that?
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Jose Pedro Reply:
December 18th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Well there were some questions regarding his return, like are you training, are you in shape and would you fight but all of them he denied that he would fight. He just answered that he always trains a lot but it’s quite impossible that he fights agains.
I forgot to mention, there was a rumor that Wanderlei Silva personally asked Dana to fight Chael Sonnen!
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ark Reply:
December 21st, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Silva – Sonnen rematch is great since Sonnen exposed Silva’s weakness in their first match. The issue of steroid use on the other hand…
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July 17th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
yeah.. im xcited 4 dat..
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