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2018 in UFC

UFC MMA events in 2018

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ48838944 ↗
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The year 2018 was the 26th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States and founded in November 1993. This year, the UFC celebrated its 25th anniversary, and an anniversary event was held on November 10, 2018 in Denver, Colorado, the city where the historical UFC 1 was held.

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The public source identifies “2018 in UFC” as uFC MMA events in 2018. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around events.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with events providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48838944. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “2018 in UFC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.