UFC schedule 2024: Every fight happening this year

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Another year of UFC action is ticking along. 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, but the American dropped the belt next time out. He was dethroned by Merab Dvalishvili in September, as the Georgian’s relentless pressure 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 should 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 and is set to face Max Holloway, and Islam Makhachev has proven unbeatable at lightweight.

But the true 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 already knocked out Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka this year – and he’s due to fight again in October.

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):

Main card

Renato Moicano vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)

Nassourdine Imavov vs Brendan Allen (middleweight)

William Gomis vs Joanderson Brito (featherweight)

Kevin Jousset vs Bryan Battle (welterweight)

Morgan Charriere vs AJ Cunningham (featherweight)

Fares Ziam vs Matt Frevola (lightweight)

Prelims

Ion Cutelaba vs Ivan Erslan (light-heavyweight)

Germaine De Randamie vs Nora Cornolle (women’s bantamweight)

Oumar Sy vs Da Woon Jung (light-heavyweight)

Ludovit Klein vs Roosevelt Roberts (lightweight)

Daria Zhelezniakova vs Ailin Perez (women’s bantamweight)

Daniel Barez vs Victor Altamirano (flyweight)

Bolaji Oki vs Chris Duncan (lightweight)

Alex Pereira (C) vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight title)

Raquel Pennington (C) vs Julianna Pena (women’s bantamweight title)

Stephen Thompson vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)

Jose Aldo vs Mario Bautista (featherweight)

Roman Dolidze vs Kevin Holland (middleweight)

Movsar Evloev vs Aljamain Sterling (featherweight)

Ketlen Vieira vs Kayla Harrison (women’s bantamweight)

Marina Rodriguez vs Iasmin Lucino (women’s strawweight)

Cesar Almeida vs Ihor Potieria (middleweight)

Carla Esparza vs Tecia Pennington (women’s strawweight)

Brandon Royval vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight)

Abdul Razak Alhassan vs Josh Fremd (middleweight)

Clayton Carpenter vs Lucas Rocha (flyweight)

Chris Barnett vs Waldo Cortes Acosta (heavyweight)

Polyana Viana vs Cory McKenna (women’s strawweight)

CJ Vergara vs Ramazan Temirov (flyweight)

Grant Dawson vs Rafa Garcia (lightweight)

Themba Gorimbo vs Niko Price (welterweight)

Chidi Njokuani vs Jared Gooden (welterweight)

Michel Pereira vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)

Brad Katona vs Jean Matsumoto (bantamweight)

Ilia Topuria (C) vs Max Holloway (featherweight title)

Ciryl Gane vs Alexander Volkov 2 (heavyweight)

Robert Whittaker vs Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight)

Magomed Ankalaev vs Aleksandar Rakic (light-heavyweight)

Shara Magomedov vs Armen Petrosyan (middleweight)

Lerone Murphy vs Dan Ige (featherweight)

Geoff Neal vs Rafael dos Anjos (welterweight)

Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs Kennedy Nzechukwu (heavyweight)

Abus Magomedov vs Bruno Ferreira (middleweight)

Rinat Fakhretdinov vs Nursulton Ruziboev (welterweight)

Ibo Aslan vs Rafael Cerqueira (light-heavyweight)

Mateusz Rebecki vs Myktybek Orolbai (lightweight)

Erin Blanchfield vs Rose Namajunas (women’s flyweight)

Derrick Lewis vs Jhonata Diniz (heavyweight)

Aiemann Zahabi vs Pedro Munhoz (bantamweight)

Mike Malott vs Trevin Giles (welterweight)

Caio Machado vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)

Alexandr Romanov vs Rodrigo Nascimento (heavyweight)

Chad Anheliger vs Cody Gibson (bantamweight)

Serhiy Sidey vs Garrett Armfield (bantamweight)

Marc-Andre Barriault vs Dustin Stoltzfus (middleweight)

Ariane da Silva vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)

Jamey-Lyn Horth vs Ivana Petrovic (women’s flyweight)

Mansur Abdul-Malik vs Dusko Todorovic (middleweight)

Jon Jones (C) vs Stipe Miocic (heavyweight title)

Charles Oliveira vs Michael Chandler 2 – (lightweight; five rounds)

TBA vs TBA

TBA vs TBA

TBA vs TBA

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