(PRESS RELEASE) -- With tickets going on sale to the public this Friday for the long-awaited welterweight title superfight between UFC® champion Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz at UFC® 137, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® announced today that it will host a press conference tomorrow in Las Vegas with the competitors. Hosted by UFC President Dana White, the press conference will take place at 1 p.m. PT at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The event is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed at www.ufc.com.
UFC® Fight Clubâ„¢ members will have the opportunity to purchase tickets Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m PT via the website www.ufcfightclub.com. A special Internet ticket pre-sale will be available to UFC newsletter subscribers Thursday, Sept. 8, starting at 10 a.m. PT. To access this presale, users must register for the UFC newsletter through UFC.com.
WHO: GEORGES ST-PIERRE, UFC welterweight champion
Nick Diaz, STRIKEFORCE® welterweight champion
DANA WHITE, UFC President
WHAT: UFC® 137: ST-PIERRE vs. DIAZ Press Conference
WHEN: TOMORROW – Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. PT
*DOORS OPEN TO PUBLIC at 12 p.m.*
1 p.m. – Presser begins at Mandalay Bay Events Center
WHERE: MANDALAY BAY EVENTS CENTER
3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, NV
For more information or current fight news, visit www.ufc.com. All bouts live and subject to change.
About Ultimate Fighting Championship®
Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC® produces over 12 UFC live Pay-Per-View events annually around the world. UFC content is distributed commercially through Joe Hand Promotions in the U.S. and Canadastar in Canada. Globally, UFC programming is broadcast in over 132 countries and territories, reaching 597 million homes worldwide, in 21 different languages.
UFC® also boasts a powerful presence online, with UFC.com attracting over seven million unique visitors per month, while also possessing one of the most powerful social media followings in all of professional sports. To date, UFC has over six million fans on Facebook and nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter. In addition, UFC President Dana White is one of the most accessible and most followed executives in sports with over 1.5 million followers on Twitter. On January 22, 2011, UFC continued to set trends in social media, becoming the first major sports league to stream live, broadcast quality action on Facebook.
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