UFC president Dana White suggested the promotion could return to Canada later this year, but declined to provide more specifics.
“We’ve got this one under our belt, first time back since COVID, now we’re going to start moving around the whole country. From here to Vancouver,” White said.
When asked if that included a return in 2024, he answered “yes.”
“We don’t have anything solid right now. I think our schedule is done up to, I want to say, July. So August, September, October, November,” White said. “You guys keep asking me and I haven’t even left yet. Let me leave before I have to answer when I’m coming back.”
White is in Toronto for UFC 297, the first pay-per-view of 2024, headlined by a middleweight championship bout between current champion Sean Strickland and Dricus du Plessis and a women’s bantamweight championship bout for the vacant title between Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva.
UFC 297 is the first event in Canada since UFC 289 last June in Vancouver.
Other events already scheduled include UFC 298 next month in Anaheim, Calif., UFC 299 in Miami in March and UFC 300 in Las Vegas in April.
“If you look this year, and this happens to me each year, I’m like ‘how are we going to beat last year?'” White said. “And then we’re rolling into this year. First event back in Canada, we break all the records up here… So as all of these things start to play out these year, these will determine what will happen in September, October, November, December.”
