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

Another year of UFC action is well 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 brought a middleweight title rematch, as Dricus Du Plessis outpointed Sean Strickland again, retaining the belt he took from the American in 2024. And at the same event, UFC 312, Zhang Weili retained the strawweight strap with a clinic against Tatiana Suarez. Then in March, Brazilian star Alex Pereira dropped the light-heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 313, ending a fine run as champion as the Russian sealed a points win.

In April, Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes clash over the vacant featherweight belt, after Ilia Topuria shockingly vacated the gold, before May brings welterweight and women’s flyweight title bouts. 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 12 April – UFC 314 – Kaseya Center, Miami, US

Alexander Volkanovski will aim to regain the (now-vacant) featherweight title (Getty Images)

Main card

Alex Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes (vacant featherweight title)

Michael Chandler vs Paddy Pimblett (lightweight, five rounds)

Yair Rodriguez vs Patricio Pitbull (featherweight)

Bryce Mitchell vs Jean Silva (featherweight)

Nikita Krylov vs Dominick Reyes (light-heavyweight)

Prelims

Dan Ige vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)

Yan Xiaonan vs Virna Jandiroba (women’s strawweight)

Jim Miller vs Chase Hooper (lightweight)

Darren Elkins vs Julian Erosa (featherweight)

Early prelims

Sedriques Dumas vs Michal Oleksiejczuk (middleweight)

Sumudaerji vs Mitch Raposo (flyweight)

Tresean Gore vs Marco Tulio (middleweight)

Nora Cornolle vs Hailey Cowan (women’s bantamweight)

Saturday 26 April – UFC Fight Night – T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, US

Ian Machado Garry before his narrow loss to Shavkat Rakhmonov in December (Getty Images)

Main card

Ian Machado Garry vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)

Anthony Smith vs Zhang Mingyang (light-heavyweight)

Giga Chikadze vs David Onama (featherweight)

Michel Pereira vs Abus Magomedov (middleweight)

Ikram Aliskerov vs Andre Muniz (middleweight)

Prelims

Matt Schnell vs Jimmy Flick (flyweight)

Evan Elder vs Ahmad Hassanzada (lightweight)

Malcolm Wellmaker vs Cameron Saaiman (bantamweight)

Jaqueline Amorim vs Polyana Viana (women’s strawweight)

Chelsea Chandler vs Joselyne Edwards (women’s bantamweight)

Saturday 3 May – UFC Fight Night – Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, US

Cory Sandhagen vs Deiveson Figueiredo (bantamweight)

Reinier de Ridder vs Bo Nickal (middleweight)

Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Daniel Rodriguez (welterweight)

Junior Tafa vs Tuco Tokkos (light-heavyweight)

Montel Jackson vs Daniel Marcos (bantamweight)

Yana Santos vs Miesha Tate (women’s bantamweight)

Cameron Smotherman vs Serhiy Sidey (bantamweight)

Marina Rodriguez vs Gillian Robertson (women’s strawweight)

Trevor Peek vs Jeongyeong Lee (featherweight)

Thomas Petersen vs Don’Tale Mayes (heavyweight)

Juliana Miller vs Ivana Petrovic (women’s flyweight)

Ryan Loder vs Azamat Bekoev (middleweight)

Saturday 11 May – UFC 315 – Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada

Belal Muhammad will make his first defence of the welterweight title (REUTERS)

Main card

Belal Muhammad (C) vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)

Valentina Shevchenko (C) vs Manon Fiorot (women’s flyweight)

Gilbert Burns vs Michael Morales (welterweight)

Alexa Grasso vs Natalia Silva (women’s flyweight)

Prelims

Jose Aldo vs Aiemann Zahabi (bantamweight)

Modestas Bukauskas vs Ion Cutelaba (light-heavyweight)

Mike Malott vs Charles Radtke (welterweight)

Jessica Andrade vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)

Early prelims

Navajo Stirling vs Ivan Erslan (light-heavyweight)

Marc-Andre Barriault vs Bruno Silva (middleweight)

Brad Katona vs Bekzat Almakhan (bantamweight)

Saturday 31 May – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

Women’s flyweight contender Erin Blanchfield (Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Erin Blanchfield vs Maycee Barber (women’s flyweight)

Zachary Reese vs Dusko Todorovic (middleweight)

Rayanne dos Santos vs Alice Ardelean (women’s strawweight)

Saturday 7 June – UFC 316 – Prudential Center, New Jersey, US

Merab Dvalishvili (top) dominated Sean O’Malley at UFC 306 (Getty Images)

Merab Dvalishvili (C) vs Sean O’Malley 2 (bantamweight title)

Julianna Pena (C) vs Kayla Harrison (women’s bantamweight title)

Saturday 14 June – UFC Fight Night – State Farm Arena, Atlanta, US

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 21 June – UFC Fight Night – Crystal Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan

Jamahal Hill is a former light-heavyweight champion (Zuffa LLC)

Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight)

Tagir Ulanbekov vs Kyoji Horiguchi (flyweight)

Irina Alekseeva vs Klaudia Sygula (women’s bantamweight)

Daria Zhelezniakova vs Melissa Mullins (women’s bantamweight)

Hamdy Abdelwahab vs Mohammed Usman (heavyweight)

Ismail Naurdiev vs Junyong Park (middleweight)

Curtis Blaydes vs Rizvan Kuniev (heavyweight)

Saturday 28 June – UFC 317 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 26 July – UFC Fight Night – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 13 September – UFC 318 – Arena Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

TBA vs TBA