UFC schedule: Every fight announced for 2026
Here’s a look at every fight and event that the MMA promotion has scheduled in the rest of 2025
Another year of UFC action is imminent, with several title fights and fan-friendly match-ups already scheduled by mixed martial arts’ flagship promotion.
The UFC’s year begins with in late January, as Liverpool’s Paddy Pimblett fights for gold for the first time, taking on Justin Gaethje for the interim lightweight title – a belt that Gaethje previously held. At the same event, one of the biggest women’s fights ever takes place, as Kayla Harrison defends her bantamweight title against all-time great Amanda Nunes, who emerges from retirement to challenge her former teammate.
Just seven days later, Alexander Volkanovski will look to fend off Diego Lopes for the second time, putting his featherweight strap on the line against the Brazilian nine months after outpointing Lopes in a vacant-title fight.
And early March will bring a different kind of title bout, as Max Holloway defends the “Baddest Motherf*****” belt against Charles Oliveira, in a long-awaited rematch between two icons of MMA.
Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for 2026, below (cards subject to change; ‘C’ denotes champion; all main events and title fights are five rounds):
Saturday 24 January – UFC 324 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Justin Gaethje vs Paddy Pimblett (interim lightweight title)
Kayla Harrison (C) vs Amanda Nunes (women’s bantamweight title)
Sean O’Malley vs Song Yadong (bantamweight)
Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Derrick Lewis (heavyweight)
Arnold Allen vs Jean Silva (featherweight)
Prelims
Michael Johnson vs Alexander Hernandez (lightweight)
Nikita Krylov vs Modestas Bukauskas (light-heavyweight)
Umar Nurmagomedov vs Deiveson Figueiredo (bantamweight)
Ateba Gautier vs Andrey Pulyaev (middleweight)
Alex Perez vs Charles Johnson (flyweight)
Natalia Silva vs Rose Namajunas (women’s flyweight)
Josh Hokit vs Denzel Freeman (heavyweight)
Ricky Turcios vs Cameron Smotherman (bantamweight)
Saturday 31 January – UFC 325 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia
Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Diego Lopes 2 (featherweight title)
Dan Hooker vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)
Rafael Fiziev vs Mauricio Ruffy (lightweight)
Kaan Ofli vs Yizha (featherweight)
Tai Tuivasa vs Tallison Teixeira (heavyweight)
Junior Tafa vs Billy Elekana (light-heavyweight)
Jonathan Micallef vs Oban Elliott (welterweight)
Quillan Salkilld vs Rongzhu (lightweight)
Jimmy Crute vs Justin Jacoby (light-heavyweight)
Cam Rowston vs Cody Brundage (middleweight)
Sangwook Kim vs Dom Mar Fan (lightweight)
Keiichiro Nakamura vs Sebastian Szalay (featherweight)
Jacob Malkoun vs Torrez Finney (middleweight)
Sulangrangbo vs Lawrence Lui (bantamweight)
Aaron Tau vs Namsrai Batbayar (flyweight)
Saturday 7 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Mario Bautista vs Vinicius Oliveira (bantamweight)
Michal Oleksiejczuk vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)
Saturday 21 February – UFC Fight Night – Toyota Center, Houston, US
Sean Strickland vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)
Ode Osbourne vs Alibi Idiris (flyweight)
Saturday 28 February – UFC Fight Night – Arena CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico
Brandon Moreno vs Asu Almabayev (flyweight)
Saturday 7 March – UFC 326 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
Max Holloway (C) vs Charles Oliveira 2 (“Baddest Motherf****r” title)
Caio Borralho vs Reinier de Ridder (middleweight)
Renato Moicano vs Brian Ortega 2 (lightweight)
Paulo Costa vs Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)
Cody Garbrandt vs Long Xiao (bantamweight)
Saturday 14 March – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 21 March – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK
Saturday 21 March – UFC Fight Night – Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, US
TBA vs TBA
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