The UFC will travel to Toronto, Ontario on April 30 to present UFC 129. The fight card will be the first the organization will present in the province of Ontario. It will also be the largest event that the UFC has ever promoted.
UFC 129 will take place at the Rogers Centre, home of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays. The UFC quickly sold out all 55,000 seats for the event, with the ticket sales generating an $11 million gate.
The main event on the card will feature Georges St.-Pierre defending his UFC Welterweight Title against Jake Shields.
The full fight card for UFC 129 follows:
Main Card
Georges St.-Pierre vs. Jake Shields (for St.-Pierre's UFC Welterweight Title)
Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick (For Aldo's UFC Featherweight Title)
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Jason Brilz
Lyoto Machida vs. Randy Couture
Ben Henderson vs. Mark Bocek
Preliminary Card
Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald
Brian Foster vs. Sean Pierson
Yves Jabouin vs. Pablo Garza
Claude Patrick vs. Daniel Roberts
Ivan Menjivar vs. Charlie Valencia
Jason MacDonald vs. Ryan Jensen
John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson
UFC President Dana White recently spoke to MMAFighting.com reporter Ariel Helwani and revealed that the pay-per-view portion of the fight card will begin at 9 p.m. ET
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