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UFC Fight Night is coming to Jacksonville June 24. Here's how fans can get tickets

Clayton Freeman, Florida Times-Union
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Ticket sales open this week for the June 24 UFC Fight Night at Jacksonville's VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, the mixed martial arts series' sixth visit to the First Coast.

General tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday and are available through Ticketmaster.com. Sales are limited to eight per person.

For UFC newsletter subscribers, a special Internet pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The June 24 card, which is still being assembled, is highlighted by a matchup of top-10 featherweight contenders Josh Emmett (18-3) and Ilia Topuria (13-0).

Fans fill the seats of VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville during UFC 261.
Fans fill the seats of VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville during UFC 261.

Who is on the UFC Fight Night in Jacksonville card?

For hometown fans, it's also a chance to see former Jaguar Austen Lane (12-3) enter the UFC Octagon for the first time in a heavyweight bout against Justin Tafa (6-3) of Australia.

Lane, 35, played 28 games for the Jaguars at defensive end from 2010 to 2012, including three sacks.

Also on the card for now, subject to change, are bouts between Tatsuro Taira (13-0) vs. Kleidison Rodrigues (8-2), flyweights; Gregory Rodrigues (13-5) vs. Denis Tiuliulin (11-7), middleweights; Punahele Soriano (9-3) vs. Sedriques Dumas (7-1), middleweights; Mateusz Rebecki (17-1) vs Loik Radzhabov (17-4-1), lightweights; Tabatha Ricci (8-1) vs. Gillian Robertson (12-7), women's strawweights; and Amanda Ribas (12-3) vs. Maycee Barber (12-2), women's flyweights.

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What is Jacksonville's UFC history?

Jacksonville has previously held two UFC Fight Nights and three numbered UFC pay-per-view events.

Those included UFC 249, which restarted the American sports scene in May 2020 after nearly two months on hold due to restrictions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic; UFC 261 in April 2021, the first major full-capacity indoor sporting event since the pandemic's onset; and UFC 273 in April 2022, highlighted by championships for Alexander Volkanovski and Aljamain Sterling. The two UFC Fight Nights took place during the week immediately after UFC 249 in 2020.

Tickets for past UFC events in Jacksonville have sold quickly. At UFC 261, UFC president Dana White declared a sell-out at 11:44 a.m. on the morning sales opened, a span of just over an hour and a half.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: UFC Fight Night in Jacksonville, Emmett-Topuria: How to buy tickets