UFC to Return to Montreal for UFC 315 on May 10 After 10-Year Absence

MONTREAL we are BACK 😤

The Octagon is heading up north for #UFC315 🇨🇦

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship is taking to an old stomping ground not reached in a decade.

The organization announced on Friday that it was making its return to the 514 for UFC 315, which will take place on May 10 inside of the city’s Bell Centre. No fights have been announced for the pay-per-view offering in Quebec’s largest city yet. It will be the first time the UFC has traveled to Montreal since UFC 186 in 2015.

At that fight card that April, Demetrious Johnson landed a buzzer-beater armbar on Kyoji Horiguchi to defend his flyweight strap. It was initially slated to be headlined by T.J. Dillashaw vs. Renan Barao, but the former fell out of the matchup due to injury. In the co-main attraction on UFC 186, Quinton Jackson threw down with Fabio Maldonado in a pre-planned catchweight contest at 215 pounds. Local fighters throughout the evening fared well, with only Chris Clements losing against a foreign adversary while four others scored wins.

With this event booked in May, Montreal will once again be the city where the UFC has traveled to the most inside of Canada. The city has hosted numerous fight cards, starting in 2008 when Matt Serra rematched Georges St. Pierre for welterweight gold. Other notable UFC main attractions in Montreal include Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites, Lyoto Machida vs. Mauricio Rua 2 and “GSP” later defending that belt against Josh Koscheck.