51°F
weather icon Mostly Clear
Las Vegas, NV
MMA UFC

UFC donates $240K to Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada — VIDEO

By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 10, 2019 - 11:47 pm
 

UFC presented Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada with a donation of $240,000 at an event at UFC headquarters on Jan. 10.

During UFC 229 fight week in Las Vegas, more than $65,000 of the donation was raised at a raffle at T-Mobile Arena.

As part of the partnership, children from Scotland, Ireland, Ohio and Kentucky were flown to Las Vegas and received premium seats for the sold out fight card.

More MMA: Follow at CoveringTheCage.com and @RJ_Sports on Twitter.

Contact Heidi Fang at hfang@reviewjournal.com. Follow @HeidiFang on Twitter.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
MORE STORIES
THE LATEST
The UFC has new owners of two buildings they occupy in the Southwest valley. (Colliers)
UFC-occupied buildings in Las Vegas sell for $23.6M
By Patrick Blennerhassett / RJ

The off-market sale was brokered by Colliers and features two buildings which are 70 percent occupied by the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Dana White, president of UFC, speaks at a news conference after the UFC 229 mixed martial arts ...
UFC reaches $375M settlement in class-action lawsuit
By Mark Anderson The Associated Press

The UFC reached another settlement with one of the two class-action litigants, agreeing Thursday to pay the former fighters $375 million after a previous agreement was thrown out by a Nevada district judge.