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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts promotion company. It is the largest MMA promoter in the world and features most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport. Based in the United States, the UFC produces events worldwide that showcase ten weight divisions and abide by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.
Chairman / President
Dana White
CEO / Managing Director
Craig Borsari
CFO / Finance Director
Andrew Schleimer
Industry
Sports entertainment
Website
ufc.com
Headquarters address
6650 South Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89118, USA
Stock Code
NYSE:EDR
Year founded
1993
China’s Song Yadong (centre) arriving for his bout against Brazil’s Deiveson Figueiredo during UFC Fight Night in Macau on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Dana White

Song Yadong and Shi Ming, China’s UFC winners in Macau, prove themselves yet again

Song is the only Chinese winner at UFC Fight Night Macau, while ‘fighting doctor’ Shi wins her first bout with the promotion the day before.

MMA

UFC Fight Night: Song raises spirits on bad night for Chinese fighters in Macau

MMA

Macau will be launch pad to Asia as promotion looks East, UFC boss Chang says

MMA

UFC Macau: China’s Song Yadong out for statement win against Brazil’s Figueiredo

Bantamweight fighter, who suffered controversial loss in his last bout, says he will not feel extra pressure performing before home crowd.

Chinese fighter Song Yadong (left) taking part in a workout session at the opening ceremony of UFC Fight Night at Macau's Galaxy resort on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump

Trump builds massive arena at White House for birthday cage fight

Crews are erecting an octagon-shaped cage on the South Lawn for next month’s UFC event.

MMA

Chinese ‘fighting doctor’ Shi set for UFC foe – with ‘half the world’ watching

The MMA fighter, who faces India’s first female UFC fighter in Macau on Friday, also explains why being a doctor ‘is like rowing upstream’.

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Donald Trump

Trump’s 80th birthday bash to feature UFC fight at White House

Ilia Topuria, Justin Gaethje, Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane will headline the bout on June 14.

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Paulo Costa talks to US President Donald Trump after he won his UFC fight in Miami on Saturday. Photo: AP
Sammo Hung Kam-bo

MMA fighter with Hong Kong roots wants ‘home’ fight, make film with Jackie Chan

Fresh from a win over an ex-UFC champion, No 6-ranked Lone’er Kavanagh says he wants ‘to get to the top as quickly as possible’.

Trending in China

Ex-painter is first China woman in world slap contest, says helps to confront fears

Ding leaves a thriving career in gaming industry as art director with an annual salary of US$43,000.

ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Christian Lee vows to finish off Alibeg Rasulov in Tokyo rematch

Double champion focuses on legacy, family and finishing what he started after accidental eye poke ended first fight last year.

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The first fight between Alibeg Rasulov (left) and Christian Lee ended abruptly because of an accidental eye poke that landed on Rasulov. Photo: ONE Championship
MMA

UFC signs 4-year deal with Macau to host 3 fights at Galaxy hotel

UFC president Dana White says agreement with Galaxy Macau hotel could not have ‘come at a better time’.

The Galaxy Macau resort, which will host three UFC fight nights. Photo: Handout
MMA

TCM doctor-MMA star Shi Ming vows to keep healing, fighting after tough UFC start

The 30-year-old says she will not ‘put all my eggs in one basket’ but might reconsider if she manages to climb up the UFC rankings.

MMA

MMA star Zhang confident of UFC’s China future as first post-Covid event announced

First Chinese fighter to win a UFC title is ‘really looking forward’ to Shanghai Fight Night, one of two back-to-back events in August.

Fame and celebrity

Meet ex-MMA fighter Travis Browne, husband of WWE and UFC star Ronda Rousey

The entrepreneur, podcast host and rancher was a UFC fighter and played college basketball; he’s been married twice before, including to model Jenna Renee Webb, and shares 2 sons with first wife Erin.

Meet Travis Browne, husband of WWE and UFC star Ronda Rousey, who just gave birth to the couple’s second daughter. Photos: @travisbrownemma/Instagram
United States

Meta names UFC boss Dana White, a Trump ally, to board

White is a close ally of Trump, who has criticised Meta and Zuckerberg for allegedly supporting liberal policies and showing bias against conservatives.

UFC President Dana White addresses a “Keep America Great” rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado on February 20, 2020. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Superpower showdown: how US-China economic warfare could play out under Trump

As US president-elect Donald Trump forms his hawk-filled cabinet, what might China do to counter and deflect a barrage of blows?

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Malaysia

Malaysian MMA fans hail UFC legend Khabib’s plan to launch gym in Johor

Khabib Gym is set to draw combat sports fans from Malaysia and across the region and become a platform to groom professional fighters.

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China’s UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili voted Female Fighter of the Year

Strawweight champion and world No 2 in the pound-for-pound rankings was the first female, Asian athlete to become a UFC champion.

UFC world strawweight champion Zhang Weili was named Female Fighter of the Year for 2024. Photo: FIRST International Film Festival
US presidential election 2024

Musk suggests Trump let public weigh in on who should lead US Treasury

The billionaire himself endorses Howard Lutnick, saying the CEO of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald ‘will actually enact change’.

US presidential election 2024

Trump names combative spokesman Steven Cheung as communications director

Cheung, who previously worked for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has a reputation for insulting attacks on Trump’s opponents.

Dana White

Song offers to show fellow UFC fighter Strickland around China after ‘toxic’ slurs

The Chinese bantamweight says the American has probably seen only the ‘bad side’ of his country and the people, wants to change his mind.

Sean Strickland (right), seen here fighting Jack Hermansson of Sweden in a 2022 middleweight bout, has described Chinese people as “animals” and “savages”. Photo: Zuffa LLC
ONE Championship

Qatar fund reportedly part of US$50m funding round for ONE Championship backers

The injection gives Group One – a rival of the company behind Ultimate Fighting Championship – a valuation of at least US$1.35 billion.

ONE Championship held its ONE 168 event at the Ball Arena in Denver, United States, last month. Photo: ONE Championship
Donald Trump

Trump’s lewd, crude, hyper-macho attitude is winning him the ‘manosphere’

Donald Trump is going all out for the macho vote in November’s US presidential election – and it’s working.

Zhang Weili

Profile | Asia’s first female UFC champion Zhang Weili relives her rise in Unstoppable

Chinese MMA fighter Zhang Weili has been credited with inspiring a generation of young women after claiming her country’s first UFC title, a story told in this gripping new documentary

Fame and celebrity

How Dee Devlin went from waitress to ex-UFC champ Conor McGregor’s fiancée

The couple have been dating since 2008, got engaged in 2020 and have four children together – sons Conor Jack Jr, Rían and Mack, and daughter Crois

Dee Devlin is more than a partner to Conor McGregor. Photo: @thenotoriousmma/Instagram
Macau

Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Macau after 10 years in November

Fight Night Macau will be the 4th UFC event to be held in the region and will take place at the 16,000-seat Galaxy Arena indoor stadium.

Hong Kong-based Brazilian Alberto Mina (left) defeated Japan’s Shinsho Anzai in a welterweight bout in August 2014, when a UFC event was last held in Macau. Photo: Getty Images
Trending in China

Profile | Why did China’s first UFC champion Zhang Weili blank Mark Zuckerberg?

Zhang Weili is a mixed martial arts (MMA) champion from China who fought her way out of a small town to international stardom, gaining celebrity fans along the way, but she allows nothing to distract her.

Zhang wins historic all-China bout at UFC 300, McGregor comeback announced

Mixed martial arts promotion stages its first title bout between two Chinese fighters, while Conor McGregor is to make long-awaited comeback, UFC president Dana White says.

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