UFC to return to Australia in 2011

UFC president Dana White has confirmed that the Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to Australia next year.

The UFC hosted the UFC 110 event in Australia on February 21 and the event was branded as a success by White.

“If you’ve ever known how we do it, when we come in and we’re as successful as we were in this market, we make it an annual event. So we’ll be coming back here obviously,” White said to the media at the UFC 110 post-fight press conference in Sydney. “Our first trip to Australia was very successful.”

White said after the UFC 116 event on July 3: “We’ll be back to Australia next year.”

“We’re killing it in Australia,” said the UFC president. “Australia has become very, very good for us.”