The Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas could be the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s gain.
In an interview with LVSportsBiz, UFC chief operations officer Lawrence Epstein said he anticipates that the promotion will eventually hold some of its major events at the new stadium, which is expected to open in August 2020. The UFC has on occasion held massive stadium events out of the country, but never in the United States.
That could change soon.
“The boxing and MMA events that have gone elsewhere … we’ve done events in Australia and Brazil and Canada that if we would have had a facility here in Las Vegas, we would have done [here],” Epstein said (transcription via MMAjunkie.