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With the Oakland Raiders set to move to Las Vegas, the city is building a 65,000-seat stadium. And, according to UFC chief operations officer, Lawrence Epstein, the promotion could very well host a show there.

“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 told MMA Junkie.

“There have been events at (AT&T) Stadium (in Arlington, Texas) – big boxing events there. There’s no reason why those events wouldn’t have come to Las Vegas. I think combat sports is going to have a home in this facility.

“The stadium events are going to be special events,” he said. “They’re going to be that event that warrants this huge crowd and the ability to sell tickets associated with 65,000-seat stadiums.”

When the Octagon touches down in “Sin City”, most events have taken place at T-Mobile Arena. But, if massive events, potentially International Fight Week, have a major buzz around it, the fight could take place at the stadium.

But, the COO assures most of the events will still happen at T-Mobile Arena and it will be a rare occurrence that they do an event in the stadium.

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All the dates have been confirmed for the remainder of the UFC’s year. And, in the fourth-quarter of 2019, they will once again return to Madison Square Garden for their annual November pay-per-view.

Along with the MSG card, they will also head to Boston for a UFC on ESPN card and also going to Washington D.C., Singapore, Moscow, and South Korea among other places. The UFC has an action-packed fourth-quarter schedule and check out what places and dates they will be heading too. But, some dates do not have a location just yet.

Here is the full schedule.

July 13 — UFC on ESPN+ — Golden1 Center in Sacramento, CA

July 20 — UFC on ESPN — AT&T Center in San Antonio, TX

July 27 — UFC 240 — Rogers Place in Edmonton, Canada

Aug. 3 — UFC on ESPN — Prudential Center in Newark, NJ

Aug. 10 — UFC on ESPN+ — Antel Arena in Montevideo, Uruguay

Aug. 17 — UFC 241 — Honda Center in Anaheim, CA

Aug. 31 — UFC on ESPN+ — Universiade Sports Centre in Shenzen, China

Sept. 7 — UFC 242 — du Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Sept. 14 — UFC on ESPN+ — Vancouver, Canada

Sept. 21 — UFC on ESPN+ — Mexico City Arena in Mexico City, Mexico

Sept. 28 — UFC on ESPN+ — Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark

Oct. 5 — UFC 243 — TBD

Oct. 12 — UFC on ESPN+ — USA

Oct. 18 — UFC on ESPN — Boston, MA

Oct. 26 — UFC on ESPN+ — Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore

Nov. 2 — UFC 244 — Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY

Nov. 9 — UFC on ESPN+ — Moscow, Russia

Nov. 16 — UFC on ESPN+ — Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dec. 7 — UFC on ESPN — Capital One Arena in Washington, DC

Dec. 14 — UFC 245 — T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV

Dec. 21 — UFC on ESPN+ — Sajik Arena in Busan, South Korea

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