LAS VEGAS – STRIKEFORCE® announced today that it will return to HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. on Saturday, May 19 with another highly-anticipated STRIKEFORCE event. HP Pavilion hosted STRIKEFORCE’s inaugural mixed martial arts event in March 2006 before a crowd of more than 18,000, and most recently hosted the 2011 Fight of the Year between Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson at UFC® 139.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 6 at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets will be available at the HP Pavilion ticket office, all Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
UFC® Fight Club™ members will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to this event Thursday, April 5 at 10 a.m. PT until 12 p.m. PT, via the website www.ufcfightclub.com. A special Internet ticket pre-sale will be available to UFC newsletter and STRIKEFORCE Insider subscribers Thursday, April 5, starting at 12 p.m. PT. To access this presale, users must register for the UFC newsletter through UFC.com.
Official fights scheduled for the event will be released shortly. The event will be broadcast live on Showtime Networks, Inc. For more information or the latest STRIKEFORCE news, follow STRIKEFORCE on Twitter and Facebook. All bouts live and subject to change.