If the UFC wants to promote an event in Dallas or Houston, all it needs to do is apply.
That’s according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which oversees the boxing commission that regulates MMA events in the Lone Star State.
“They have to find a venue, and they have to send us the paperwork, and then we go from there,” TDLR spokesperson Tela Mange told MMA Fighting.
UFC President Dana White painted a different picture this past Saturday when discussing his desire to take the octagon to Texas as early as March 27, the date of a heavyweight title rematch between champ Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou.