UFC schedule: Every fight left in 2024 and all announced for 2025
Here’s a look at every fight and event that the MMA promotion has scheduled for 2024 so far
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Your support makes all the difference.Another year of UFC action is at its end, with numerous new champions having been crowned – and stars having been made.
“Sugar” Sean O’Malley’s star rose with his first bantamweight title defence, a clinic against old foe Marlon Vera in March, although the American dropped the belt next time out. He was dethroned by Merab Dvalishvili in September, as the Georgian’s relentless wrestling proved too much.
It was a similar story for Britain’s Leon Edwards in July, as he surrendered the welterweight title to Belal Muhammad, but the fans in Manchester that night at least got to see Tom Aspinall retain his interim heavyweight title. Aspinall’s first-round knockout of Curtis Blaydes may set up a clash with ‘undisputed’ champion Jon Jones, who retained his title against divisional great Stipe Miocic in November. But Jones has expressed little interest in facing the Wigan heavyweight, potentially complicating the title picture...
Elsewhere: Dricus Du Plessis took the 185lb belt from Sean Strickland and retained it against Israel Adesanya; Ilia Topuria ended Alex Volkanovski’s long featherweight title reign then became the first fighter to KO Max Holloway; and Islam Makhachev has proven unbeatable at lightweight.
But arguably the biggest star of 2024 has been Alex Pereira, the former middleweight champ who has become 205lb king and a fan favourite. The Brazilian is always open to fight on short notice and has knocked out Jamahal Hill, Jiri Prochazka and Khalil Rountree Jr this year.
And there are plenty of intriguing fights coming up in 2025. Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for the rest of 2024 and start of 2025, below (cards subject to change; ‘C’ denotes champion):
Saturday 14 December – UFC Fight Night – Amalie Arena, Tampa, US
Main card
Colby Covington vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)
Cub Swanson vs Billy Quarantillo (featherweight)
Vitor Petrino vs Dustin Jacoby (light-heavyweight)
Adrian Yanez vs Daniel Marcos (bantamweight)
Manel Kape vs Bruno Silva (flyweight)
Navajo Stirling vs Tuco Tokkos (light-heavyweight)
Prelims
Michael Johnson vs Ottman Azaitar (lightweight)
Joel Alvarez vs Drakkar Klose (lightweight)
Sean Woodson vs Fernando Padilla (featherweight)
Miles Johns vs Felipe Lima (featherweight)
Miranda Maverick vs Jamey-Lyn Horth (women’s flyweight)
Davey Grant vs Ramon Taveras (bantamweight)
Josefine Knutsson vs Piera Rodriguez (women’s strawweight)
Saturday 11 January 2025 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Mackenzie Dern vs Amanda Ribas (women’s strawweight)
Cesar Almeida vs Abdul Razak Alhassan (middleweight)
Christian Rodriguez vs Austin Bashi (featherweight)
Saturday 18 January 2025 – UFC 311 – Intuit Dome, Inglewood, US
Main card
Islam Makhachev (C) vs Arman Tsarukyan 2 (lightweight title)
Merab Dvalishvili (C) vs Umar Nurmagomedov (men’s bantamweight title)
Jiri Prochazka vs Jamahal Hill (light-heavyweight)
Beneil Dariush vs Renato Moicano (lightweight)
Kevin Holland vs Reiner de Ridder (middleweight)
Prelims
Johnny Walker vs Bogdan Guskov (light-heavyweight)
Payton Talbott vs Raoni Barcelos (bantamweight)
Jailton Almeida vs Serghei Pivac (heavyweight)
Zachary Reese vs Sedrique Dumas (middleweight)
Early prelims
Grant Dawson vs Diego Ferreira (lightweight)
Karol Rosa vs Ailin Perez (women’s bantamweight)
Rinya Nakamura vs Muin Gafurov (bantamweight)
Ricky Turcios vs Benardo Sopaj (bantamweight)
Tagir Ulanbekov vs Clayton Carpenter (flyweight)
Saturday 1 February 2025 – UFC Fight Night – The Venue, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
TBA vs TBA
Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Mayra Bueno Silva (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 8 February 2025 – UFC 312 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia
Dricus Du Plessis (C) vs Sean Strickland 2 (middleweight title)
Zhang Weili (C) vs Tatiana Suarez (women’s strawweight title)
Quillan Salkilld vs Anshul Jubli (lightweight)
Rei Tsuruya vs Stewart Nicoll (flyweight)
Jimmy Crute vs Marcin Prachnio (light-heavyweight)
Saturday 15 February 2025 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 22 February 2025 – UFC Fight Night – Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 1 March 2025 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 8 March 2025 – UFC 313 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 15 March 2025 – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 22 March 2025 – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 29 March 2025 – UFC Fight Night – TBD
TBA vs TBA
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