UFC Fight Night 259
| UFC Fight Night 259 | ||||
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| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 23, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Shanghai Indoor Stadium | |||
| City | Shanghai, China | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night 259 is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on August 23, 2025, at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium in Shanghai, China.[1][2][3][4][5]
Background
[edit]The event will mark the promotion's second visit to Shanghai and first since UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum in November 2017. It will also be the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that the UFC has returned to Mainland China.[1] The promotion was originally expected to make their return to the location at UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutiérrez in December 2023, before moving that event to Las Vegas due to undisclosed reasons.[6]
A light heavyweight bout between Johnny Walker and Zhang Mingyang is scheduled to headline this event.[2]
Announced bouts
[edit]- Light Heavyweight bout: Johnny Walker vs. Zhang Mingyang[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Farah Hannoun (2025-05-22). "UFC returns to Shanghai in August for Fight Night event". mmajunkie.usatoday.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ a b c Marina Magomedova (2025-05-21). "Source: Walker to Fight Zhang on August 23 at UFC Shanghai Event". telecomasia.net. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ Bartłomiej Stachura (2025-05-21). "Mingyang Zhang wystąpi w walce wieczoru sierpniowej gali UFC Fight Night w Szanghaju – znamy nazwisko rywala". lowking.pl. Retrieved 2025-05-22. (in Polish)
- ^ Min Jungu (2025-05-22). "UFC, the world's best MMA group, announced on the 22nd (Korea time) that it will hold the semi-finals of ROAD TO UFC Season 4 with UFC Fight Night Shanghai in Shanghai". mk.co.kr. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ France 24 (2025-05-22). "Zhang Weili confident of UFC's future in China as Fight Night announced". france24.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Damon Martin (2023-11-15). "UFC Shanghai card expected to shift to Las Vegas on Dec. 9". mmafighting.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
