UFC schedule 2024: Every fight happening this year

Here’s a look at every fight and event that the MMA promotion has scheduled for 2024 so far

Another year of UFC action is ticking along. Fans anticipate the long-awaited return of Conor McGregor, but MMA’s flagship promotion is producing more stars with each passing year, and many of them already have bouts scheduled for 2024.

While McGregor’s planned fight with Michael Chandler is finally official for UFC 303 in June, the year kicked off with Dricus Du Plessis taking the middleweight title from Sean Strickland in a closely-fought bout. At the next pay-per-view, featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski finally lost his belt with a knockout loss to rising star Ilia Topuria, and at UFC 299 in March, bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley retained his bantamweight title in a rematch with Marlon Vera.

Then, at the historic UFC 300 in April, Max Holloway produced an all-time great KO to take the ‘BMF’ belt from Justin Gaethje, before Alex Pereira extended his 205lbs title run with a stoppage of Jamahal Hill. Later that night, Islam Makhachev’s next title defence was announced, with the lightweight king set to take on Dustin Poirier in June.

And there are plenty more intriguing fights coming up. Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for 2024, below (cards subject to change):

Saturday 27 April – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

UFC flyweight Alex Perez (Getty Images)

Main card

Matheus Nicolau vs Alex Perez (flyweight)

Ryan Spann vs Bogdan Guskov (light-heavyweight)

Ariane Lipski vs Karine Silva (women’s flyweight)

Austen Lane vs Jhonata Diniz (heavyweight)

Jonathan Pearce vs David Onama (featherweight)

Tim Means vs Uros Medic (welterweight)

Prelims

Rani Yahya vs Victor Henry (bantamweight)

Austin Hubbard vs Michal Figlak (lightweight)

Don’Tale Mayes vs Caio Machado (heavyweight)

Marnic Mann vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)

James Llontop vs Chris Padilla (lightweight)

Ivana Petrovic vs Liang Na (women’s flyweight)

Gabriel Benitez vs Maheshate (lightweight)

Saturday 4 May – UFC 301 – Rio Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Featherweight icon Jose Aldo will come out of retirement at UFC 301 (Getty Images)

Main card

Alexandre Pantoja (C) vs Steve Erceg (men’s flyweight title)

Jonathan Martinez vs Jose Aldo (bantamweight)

Anthony Smith vs Vitor Petrino (light-heavyweight)

Michel Pereira vs Ihor Potieria (middleweight)

Paul Craig vs Caio Borralho (middleweight)

Prelims

Jack Shore vs Joanderson Brito (featherweight)

Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Iasmin Lucindo (women’s strawweight)

Elves Brener vs Myktybek Orolbai (lightweight)

Jean Silva vs William Gomis (featherweight)

Early prelims

Joaquim Silva vs Drakkar Klose (lightweight)

Mauricio Ruffy vs Jamie Mullarkey (lightweight)

Dione Barbosa vs Ernesta Kareckaite (women’s flyweight)

Ismael Bonfim vs Vinc Pichel (lightweight)

Alessandro Costa vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)

Saturday 11 May – UFC Fight Night – Enterprise Center, St Louis, US

UFC heavyweight contender Derrick Lewis (Getty Images)

Derrick Lewis vs Rodrigo Nascimento (heavyweight)

Joaquin Buckley vs Nursulton Ruziboev (welterweight)

Alonzo Menifield vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)

Terrance McKinney vs Esteban Ribovics (lightweight)

Chase Hooper vs Viacheslav Borshchev (lightweight)

Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Robelis Despaigne (heavyweight)

Tabatha Ricci vs Tecia Pennington (women’s strawweight)

Billy Goff vs Trey Waters (welterweight)

Charles Johnson vs Jake Hadley (flyweight)

Jared Gooden vs Kevin Jousset (welterweight)

Alex Caceres vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)

JJ Aldrich vs Veronica Hardy (women’s flyweight)

Saturday 18 May – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

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Edson Barboza vs Lerone Murphy (featherweight)

Tim Elliott vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight)

Khaos Williams vs Carlston Harris (welterweight)

Oumar Sy vs Rodolfo Bellato (light-heavyweight)

Adrian Yanez vs Vinicius Salvador (bantamweight)

Luana Pinheiro vs Angela Hill (women’s strawweight)

Themba Gorimbo vs Ramiz Brahimaj (welterweight)

Abus Magomedov vs Warlley Alves (middleweight)

Victor Martinez vs Tom Nolan (lightweight)

Hailey Cowan vs Tamires Vidal (women’s bantamweight)

Piera Rodriguez vs Ariane Carnelossi (women’s strawweight)

Vanessa Demopoulos vs Emily Ducote (women’s strawweight)

Saturday 1 June – UFC 302 – Prudential Center, New Jersey, US

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Islam Makhachev (C) vs Dustin Poirier (lightweight title)

Sean Strickland vs Paulo Costa (middleweight – five rounds)

Randy Brown vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (welterweight)

Cesar Almeida vs Roman Kopylov (middleweight)

Sumudaerji vs Joshua Van (flyweight)

Hyun Sung Park vs Andre Lima (flyweight)

Niko Price vs Alex Morono (welterweight)

Jailton Almeida vs Alexandr Romanov (heavyweight)

Roman Dolidze vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)

Mickey Gall vs Bassil Hafez (welterweight)

Phil Rowe vs Jake Matthews (middleweight)

Grant Dawson vs Joe Solecki (lightweight)

Ailin Perez vs Joselyne Edwards (women’s bantamweight)

Saturday 8 June – UFC Fight Night – Yum! Center, Louisville, US

Raul Rosas Jr vs Ricky Turcios (bantamweight)

Brad Katona vs Jesse Butler (bantamweight)

Cody Stamann vs Taylor Lapilus (bantamweight)

Saturday 22 June – UFC Fight Night – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rising UFC middleweight star Khamzat Chimaev (Getty Images)

Robert Whittaker vs Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight)

Sergei Pavlovich vs Alexander Volkov (heavyweight)

Johnny Walker vs Volkan Oezdemir (light-heavyweight)

Kelvin Gastelum vs Daniel Rodriguez (welterweight)

Saturday 29 June – UFC 303 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US

Conor McGregor will return after three years away (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Conor McGregor vs Michael Chandler (welterweight)

Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight)

Mayra Bueno Silva vs Macy Chiasson (women’s bantamweight)

Cub Swanson vs Andre Fili (featherweight)

Joe Pyfer vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Gillian Robertson (women’s strawweight)

Rei Tsuruya vs Carlos Hernandez (flyweight)

Saturday 27 July – UFC 304 – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 3 August – UFC Fight Night – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 18 August – UFC 305 – RAC Arena, Perth, Australia

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 27 October – UFC 308 – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE

TBA vs TBA

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