UFC 171 heads to American Airlines Center in Dallas on March 15

LAS VEGAS – For the first time since 2009, the UFC will head to Dallas.

The UFC 171 pay-per-view card will take place March 15 at American Airlines Center in Dallas. UFC President Dana White announced the location and date at the post-event news conference for UFC 167, which took place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

White did not announce a headliner for the card – though he did say that a rematch between welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and Johny Hendricks “made sense” for the card. St-Pierre on Saturday took a controversial split decision from Hendricks in the UFC 167 main event.

The UFC most recently was in Dallas for UFC 103 in September 2009. That card featured a main event between former champs Vitor Belfort and Rich Franklin, a fight that Belfort won with a first-round knockout. That card drew more than 17,000 fans for a $2.4 million gate.

The show also featured a heavyweight fight between Junior dos Santos and Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic. The card started with four decisions in the first five fights, but then closed out with eight straight stoppages.

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