The Ultimate Fighting Championship will return to Denver, the city of its conception, for the first time since 2012 when the mixed-martial arts promotion hosts a nationally televised event early next year.

UFC officials said Wednesday they will host a “UFC on Fox” card at the Pepsi Center on Jan. 28, to be aired nationally on the network channel. UFC matchmakers are still deciding on fights that will be announced in the coming days, they said. Tickets will go on sale Friday, Dec. 2, UFC said.

Denver last hosted UFC 150, a pay-per-view card on Aug. 11, 2012. Colorado native Benson Henderson defeated Frankie Edgar by a controversial split decision at the top of that lineup, and Denver’s Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone knocked out Melvin Guillard in the first round as the co-main event. Related Articles November 9, 2016 Eddie Alvarez primed for fight of his life against Conor McGregor at UFC 205

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UFC 150, though, earned only $650,000 in gate receipts, the worst UFC gate tally for a pay-per-view event since 2007. But Dana White, then UFC’s president, believed statewide wildfires and the recent Aurora theater shooting tamped down ticket sales.

In 2011, Denver hosted UFC 135 at the Pepsi Center, as Jon Jones defeated Rampage Jackson by fourth-round submission. That card was Denver’s first UFC card since UFC 2 in 1994. Denver was the site of UFC 1 and 2, at McNichols Arena in 1993 and Mammoth Gardens in 1994, back when MMA in America was a wild, rules-light fringe sport.

It has since grown into a rich international promotion and in July sold for $4 billion to an investment partnership group headed by talent agency WME-IMG.