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 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 will bring another rematch, as Dricus Du Plessis puts the middleweight belt on the line against Sean Strickland, the man he dethroned in early 2024. And at the same event, UFC 312, Tatiana Suarez challenges Zhang Weili for her strawweight strap.
Then, in March, superstar Alex Pereira defends the light-heavyweight title against Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 313 – with the event also bringing Justin Gaethje vs Dan Hooker, one of Indy Sport’s most-desired fights for 2025.
Elsewhere, there are numerous former champions in action: so far, fights have been booked featuring Israel Adesanya, Henry Cejudo, Dominick Cruz and Jan Blachowicz – while Jiri Prochazka and Jamahal Hill squared off at UFC 311, as the Czech knocked out the American.
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 1 February – UFC Fight Night – Anb Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Main card
Israel Adesanya vs Nassourdine Imavov (middleweight)
Shara Magomedov vs Michael “Venom” Page (middleweight)
Sergei Pavlovich vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik (heavyweight)
Said Nurmagomedov vs Vinicius Oliveira (bantamweight)
Fares Ziam vs Mike Davis (lightweight)
Muhammad Naimov vs Kaan Ofli (featherweight)
Prelims
Shamil Gaziev vs Thomas Petersen (heavyweight)
Terrance McKinney vs Damir Hadzovic (lightweight)
Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Mayra Bueno Silva (women’s flyweight)
Bogdan Grad vs Lucas Alexander (featherweight)
Hamdy Abdelwahab vs Jamal Pogues (heavyweight)
Saturday 8 February – UFC 312 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia
Main card
Dricus Du Plessis (C) vs Sean Strickland 2 (middleweight title)
Zhang Weili (C) vs Tatiana Suarez (women’s strawweight title)
Justin Tafa vs Tallison Teixeira (heavyweight)
Jimmy Crute vs Rodolfo Bellato (light-heavyweight)
Jake Matthews vs Francisco Prado (welterweight)
Prelims
Jack Jenkins vs Gabriel Santos (featherweight)
Tom Nolan vs Viacheslav Borshchev (lightweight)
Wang Cong vs Bruna Brasil (women’s flyweight)
Cody Haddon vs Aleksandre Topuria (bantamweight)
Early prelims
Jonathan Micallef vs Kevin Jousset (welterweight)
Quillan Salkilld vs Anshul Jubli (lightweight)
Hyunsung Park vs Nyamjargal Tumendemberel (flyweight)
Saturday 15 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Jared Cannonier vs Gregory Rodrigues (middleweight)
Calvin Kattar vs Youssef Zalal (featherweight)
Edmen Shahbazyan vs Dylan Budka (middleweight)
Ismael Bonfim vs Nazim Sadykhov (lightweight)
Rodolfo Vieira vs Andre Petroski (middleweight)
Connor Matthews vs Jose Delgado (featherweight)
Prelims
Angela Hill vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)
Jared Gordon vs Kaue Fernandes (lightweight)
Rafael Estevam vs Jesus Aguilar (flyweight)
Gabriel Bonfim vs Rinat Fakhretdinov (welterweight)
Vince Morales vs Elijah Smith (bantamweight)
Valter Walker vs Don’Tale Mayes (heavyweight)
Julia Avila vs Jacqueline Cavalcanti (women’s bantamweight)
Saturday 22 February – UFC Fight Night – Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, US
Main card
Henry Cejudo vs Song Yadong (bantamweight)
Rob Font vs Dominick Cruz (bantamweight)
Brendan Allen vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)
Jean Silva vs Meslik Baghdasaryan (featherweight)
Curtis Blaydes vs Rizvan Kuniev (heavyweight)
Edson Barboza vs Steve Garcia (featherweight)
Prelims
Ion Cutelaba vs Ibo Aslan (light-heavyweight)
Adam Fugitt vs Islam Dulatov (welterweight)
Ketlen Vieira vs Macy Chiasson (women’s bantamweight)
Ricky Simon vs Javid Basharat (bantamweight)
Mansur Abdul-Malik vs Antonio Trocoli (Mansur Abdul-Malik)
Modestas Bukauskas vs Rafael Cerqueira (light-heavyweight)
Saturday 1 March – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Brandon Royval vs Manel Kape (flyweight)
Asu Almabayev vs Steve Erceg (flyweight)
Cody Brundage vs Julian Marquez (middleweight)
Nasrat Haqparast vs Esteban Ribovics (lightweight)
Charles Johnson vs Ramazan Temirov (flyweight)
Prelims
Austen Lane vs Mario Pinto (heavyweight)
Hyder Amil vs William Gomis (featherweight)
Ricardo Ramos vs Chepe Mariscal (featherweight)
Douglas Silva De Andrade vs Josh Castaneda (bantamweight)
Andrea Lee vs JJ Aldrich (women’s flyweight)
Danny Barlow vs Sam Patterson (welterweight)
Montana De La Rosa vs Luana Carolina (women’s flyweight)
Danny Silva vs Lucas Almeida (featherweight)
Saturday 8 March – UFC 313 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
Alex Pereira (C) vs Magomed Ankalaev (light-heavyweight title)
Justin Gaethje vs Dan Hooker (lightweight, five rounds)
Bruno Silva vs Joshua Van (flyweight)
Amanda Lemos vs Iasmin Lucindo (women’s strawweight)
Mairon Santos vs Francis Marshall (featherweight)
Alex Morono vs Carlos Leal (welterweight)
Brunno Ferreira vs Armen Petrosyan (middleweight)
Chris Gutierrez vs Jean Matsumoto (bantamweight)
Djorden Santos vs Ozzy Diaz (middleweight)
Saturday 15 March – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Marvin Vettori vs Roman Dolidze 2 (middleweight)
Daniel Barez vs Andre Lima (flyweight)
Saturday 22 March – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK
Main card
Leon Edwards vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)
Jan Blachowicz vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)
Molly McCann vs Istela Nunes (women’s strawweight)
Nathaniel Wood vs Morgan Charriere (featherweight)
Jai Herbert vs Chris Padilla (lightweight)
Prelims
Alonzo Menifield vs Oumar Sy (light-heavyweight)
Marcin Tybura vs Mick Parkin (heavyweight)
Lone’er Kavanagh vs Felipe dos Santos (flyweight)
Christian Leroy Duncan vs Andrey Pulyaev (middleweight)
Shauna Bannon vs Puja Tomar (women’s strawweight)
Nathan Fletcher vs Caolan Loughran (bantamweight)
Saturday 29 March – UFC Fight Night – TBD
TBA vs TBA