UFC schedule 2024: Every fight left this year
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 nearing its end. Fans will have to wait until 2025 for the long-awaited return of Conor McGregor, but MMA’s flagship promotion is producing more stars with each passing year, and many of them have fought – or will fight – in 2024.
“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 is due to defend 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 more intriguing fights coming up. Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for the rest of 2024, below (cards subject to change; ‘C’ denotes champion):
Saturday 16 November – UFC 309 – Madison Square Garden, New York City, US
Main card
Jon Jones (C) vs Stipe Miocic (heavyweight title)
Charles Oliveira vs Michael Chandler 2 (lightweight, five rounds)
Bo Nickal vs Paul Craig (middleweight)
Viviane Araujo vs Karine Silva (women’s flyweight)
Mauricio Ruffy vs James Llontop (lightweight)
Prelims
Jonathan Martinez vs Marcus McGhee (bantamweight)
Chris Weidman vs Eryk Anders (middleweight)
Jim Miller vs Damon Jackson (lightweight)
David Onama vs Roberto Romero (lightweight)
Early prelims
Marcin Tybura vs Jhonata Diniz (heavyweight)
Mickey Gall vs Ramiz Brahimaj (welterweight)
Bassil Hafez vs Oban Elliott (welterweight)
Veronica Hardy vs Eduarda Moura (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 23 November – UFC Fight Night – Galaxy Arena, Macau, China
Main card
Petr Yan vs Deiveson Figueiredo (bantamweight)
Xan Yiaonan vs Tabatha Ricci (women’s strawweight)
Volkan Oezdemir vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)
Song Kenan vs Muslim Salikhov (welterweight)
Wang Cong vs Gabriella Fernandes (women’s flyweight)
Zhang Mingyang vs Ozzy Diaz (light-heavyweight)
Prelims
Xie Bin vs Zhu Kangjie (featherweight)
Baergeng Jieleyisi vs Su Young Yu (bantamweight)
Kiru Singh Sahota vs Dong Hun Choi (flyweight)
Shi Ming vs Feng Xiaocan (women’s strawweight)
Nyamjargal Tumendemberel vs Carlos Hernandez (flyweight)
Lone’er Kavanagh vs Jose Ochoa (flyweight)
Xiao Long vs Quang Le (bantamweight)
Maheshate vs Nikolas Motta (lightweight)
Saturday 7 December – UFC 310 – T-Mobile, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA [Belal Muhammad vs Shavkat Rakhmonov cancelled]
Alexandre Pantoja (C) vs Kai Asakura (men’s flyweight title)
Ciryl Gane vs Alexander Volkov 2 (heavyweight)
Vicente Luque vs Nick Diaz (welterweight)
Movsar Evloev vs Aljamain Sterling (featherweight)
Randy Brown vs Bryan Battle (welterweight)
Tallison Teixeira vs Lukasz Brzeski (heavyweight)
Cody Durden vs Joshua Van (flyweight)
Clay Guida vs Chase Hooper (lightweight)
Michael Chiesa vs Max Griffin (welterweight)
Anthony Smith vs Dominick Reyes (light-heavyweight)
Saturday 14 December – UFC Fight Night – Amalie Arena, Tampa, US
Ian Machado Garry vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)
Amanda Ribas vs Mackenzie Dern (women’s strawweight)
Cub Swanson vs Billy Quarantillo (featherweight)
Tracy Cortez vs Miranda Maverick (women’s flyweight)
Michael Johnson vs Ottman Azaitar (lightweight)
Joel Alvarez vs Drakkar Klose (lightweight)
Vitor Petrino vs Dustin Jacoby (light-heavyweight)
Manel Kape vs Bruno Silva (flyweight)
Adrian Yanez vs Daniel Marcos (bantamweight)
Davey Grant vs Ramon Taveras (bantamweight)
Josefine Knutsson vs Piera Rodriguez (women’s strawweight)
Navajo Stirling vs Tuco Tokkos (light-heavyweight)
Sean Woodson vs Fernando Padilla (featherweight)
Saturday 8 February 2025 – UFC 312 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 22 March 2025 – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK
TBA vs TBA
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