UFC schedule 2025: Every fight announced this year
Here’s a look at every fight and event that the MMA promotion has scheduled for 2025 so far
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Your support makes all the difference.Another year of UFC action is well under way, with numerous high-stakes fights lined up.
The first pay-per-view of the year, January’s UFC 311, was due to see Islam Makhachev defend the lightweight belt against Arman Tsarukyan – six years after their close first fight – but the injured challenger was replaced on one day’s notice by Renato Moicano.
In the new main event, Makhachev cemented his status as pound-for-pound king by submitting Moicano in round one, after Merab Dvalishvili retained his bantamweight title against Umar Nurmagomedov. Down on the scorecards, Dvalishvili fought back to hand Umar – a cousin of Khabib – his first professional loss.
February brought a middleweight title rematch, as Dricus Du Plessis outpointed Sean Strickland again, retaining the belt he took from the American in 2024. And at the same event, UFC 312, Zhang Weili retained the strawweight strap with a clinic against Tatiana Suarez. Then in March, Brazilian star Alex Pereira dropped the light-heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 313, ending a fine run as champion as the Russian sealed a points win.
In April, Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes clash over the vacant featherweight belt, after Ilia Topuria shockingly vacated the gold, before May brings welterweight and women’s flyweight title bouts. And there are plenty more intriguing fights to come in 2025. Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for this year, below (cards subject to change; ‘C’ denotes champion):
Saturday 15 March – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Marvin Vettori vs Roman Dolidze 2 (middleweight)
Chidi Njokuani vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (welterweight)
Seungwoo Choi vs Kevin Vallejos (featherweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs Kurt Holobaugh (lightweight)
Da’mon Blackshear vs Cody Gibson (bantamweight)
Suyoung You vs AJ Cunningham (bantamweight)
Prelims
Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Ryan Spann (heavyweight)
Stephanie Luciano vs Sam Hughes (women’s strawweight)
Diyar Nurgozhay vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)
Carlos Vera vs Josias Musasa (bantamweight)
Daniel Barez vs Andre Lima (flyweight)
Josiane Nunes vs Priscila Cachoeira (women’s bantamweight)
Evan Elder vs Marquel Mederos (lightweight)
Yuneisy Duben vs Carli Judice (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 22 March – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK
Main card
Leon Edwards vs Sean Brady (welterweight)
Jan Blachowicz vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)
Gunnar Nelson vs Kevin Holland (welterweight)
Molly McCann vs Istela Nunes (women’s strawweight)
Jordan Vucenic vs Chris Duncan (lightweight)
Nathaniel Wood vs Morgan Charriere (featherweight)
Prelims
Jai Herbert vs Chris Padilla (lightweight)
Lone’er Kavanagh vs Felipe dos Santos (flyweight)
Marcin Tybura vs Mick Parkin (heavyweight)
Christian Leroy Duncan vs Andrey Pulyaev (middleweight)
Shauna Bannon vs Puja Tomar (women’s strawweight)
Nathan Fletcher vs Caolan Loughran (bantamweight)
Guram Kutateladze vs Kaue Fernandes (lightweight)
Saturday 29 March – UFC Fight Night – Arena CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico
Main card
Brandon Moreno vs Steve Erceg (flyweight)
Manuel Torres vs Drew Dober (lightweight)
Kelvin Gastelum vs Joe Pyfer (middleweight)
Ismael Bonfim vs Austin Hubbard (lightweight)
David Martinez vs Saimon Oliveira (bantamweight)
Ronaldo Rodriguez vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)
Prelims
Edgar Chairez vs CJ Vergara (flyweight)
Jose Daniel Medina vs Ateba Gautier (middleweight)
Loopy Godinez vs Julia Polastri (women’s strawweight)
Rafa Garcia vs Vinc Pichel (lightweight)
Christian Rodriguez vs Melquizael Costa (featherweight)
Raul Rosas Jr vs Vince Morales (bantamweight)
Saturday 5 April – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, UFC
Main card
Josh Emmett vs Lerone Murphy (featherweight)
Pat Sabatini vs Joanderson Brito (featherweight)
Cortavious Romious vs Changho Lee (bantamweight)
Kennedy Nzechukwu vs Martin Buday (heavyweight)
Brad Tavares vs Gerald Meerschaert (middleweight)
Torrez Finney vs Robert Valentin (middleweight)
Prelims
Ode Osbourne vs Luis Gurule (flyweight)
Davey Grant vs Daniel Santos (bantamweight)
Rhys McKee vs Daniel Frunza (welterweight)
Diana Belbita vs Dione Barbosa (women’s flyweight)
Loma Lookboonmee vs Ariane Carnelossi (women’s strawweight)
Victor Henry vs Pedro Falcao (bantamweight)
Vanessa Demopoulos vs Talita Alencar (women’s strawweight)
Saturday 12 April – UFC 314 – Kaseya Center, Miami, US
Alex Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes (vacant featherweight title)
Michael Chandler vs Paddy Pimblett (lightweight, five rounds)
Bryce Mitchell vs Jean Silva (featherweight)
Yair Rodriguez vs Patricio Pitbull (featherweight)
Geoff Neal vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)
Dan Ige vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)
Nikita Krylov vs Dominick Reyes (light-heavyweight)
Yan Xiaonan vs Virna Jandiroba (women’s strawweight)
Darren Elkins vs Julian Erosa (featherweight)
Jim Miller vs Chase Hooper (lightweight)
Alberto Montes vs Roberto Romero (featherweight)
Sedriques Dumas vs Michal Oleksiejczuk (middleweight)
Sumudaerji vs Mitch Raposo (flyweight)
Tresean Gore vs Marco Tulio (middleweight)
Nora Cornolle vs Hailey Cowan (women’s bantamweight)
Saturday 26 April – UFC Fight Night – T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, US
Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight)
Randy Brown vs Nicolas Dalby (welterweight)
Malcolm Wellmaker vs Cameron Saaiman (bantamweight)
Matt Schnell vs Jimmy Flick (flyweight)
Mitch Ramirez vs Ahmad Hassanzada (lightweight)
Chelsea Chandler vs Joselyne Edwards (women’s bantamweight)
Jaqueline Amorim vs Polyana Viana (women’s strawweight)
Ikram Aliskerov vs Andre Muniz (middleweight)
Giga Chikadze vs David Onama (featherweight)
Michel Pereira vs Abus Magomedov (middleweight)
Anthony Smith vs Zhang Zhang Mingyang (light-heavyweight)
Saturday 11 May – UFC 315 – Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
Belal Muhammad (C) vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)
Valentina Shevchenko (C) vs Manon Fiorot (women’s flyweight)
Modestas Bukauskas vs Ion Cutelaba (light-heavyweight)
Jose Aldo vs Aiemann Zahabi (bantamweight)
Jessica Andrade vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)
Gilbert Burns vs Michael Morales (welterweight)
Mike Malott vs Charles Radtke (welterweight)
Alexa Grasso vs Natalia Silva (women’s flyweight)
Navajo Stirling vs Ivan Erslan (light-heavyweight)
Marc-Andre Barriault vs Bruno Silva (middleweight)
Brad Katona vs Bekzat Almakhan (bantamweight)
Saturday 28 June – UFC 317 – TBA
TBA vs TBA
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