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

Paddy Pimblett after his win over Michael Chandler in April 2024 (Getty Images)

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)

Adam Fugitt vs Ty Miller (welterweight)

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 (right) outpointed Diego Lopes in April (Getty Images)

Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Diego Lopes 2 (featherweight title)

Dan Hooker vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)

Rafael Fiziev vs Mauricio Ruffy (lightweight)

Tai Tuivasa vs Tallison Teixeira (heavyweight)

Jonathan Micallef vs Oban Elliott (welterweight)

Junior Tafa vs Billy Elekana (light-heavyweight)

Kaan Ofli vs Yizha (featherweight)

Jimmy Crute vs Justin Jacoby (light-heavyweight)

Quillan Salkilld vs Rongzhu (lightweight)

Cam Rowston vs Cody Brundage (middleweight)

Jacob Malkoun vs Torrez Finney (middleweight)

Sangwook Kim vs Dom Mar Fan (lightweight)

Keiichiro Nakamura vs Sebastian Szalay (featherweight)

Sulangrangbo vs Lawrence Lui (bantamweight)

Aaron Tau vs Namsrai Batbayar (flyweight)

Saturday 7 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

Mario Bautista (right) will take on Vinicius Oliveira in Las Vegas (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Mario Bautista vs Vinicius Oliveira (bantamweight)

Amir Albazi vs Kyoji Horiguchi (flyweight)

Michal Oleksiejczuk vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)

Wang Cong vs Eduarda Moura (women’s flyweight)

Bruna Brasil vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)

Ryan Spann vs Rizvan Kuniev (heavyweight)

Klaudia Sygula vs Priscila Cachoeira (women’s bantamweight)

Uran Satybaldiev vs Julius Walker (light-heavyweight)

Saturday 21 February – UFC Fight Night – Toyota Center, Houston, US

Former UFC champion Sean Strickland (Getty Images)

Sean Strickland vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)

Dan Ige vs Melquizael Costa (featherweight)

Serghei Spivac vs Ante Delija (heavyweight)

Zachary Reese vs Michel Pereira (middleweight)

Jordan Leavitt vs Yadier del Valle (featherweight)

Austin Vanderford vs Jean Paul Lebosnoyani (welterweight)

Alden Coria vs Luis Gurule (flyweight)

Nora Cornolle vs Joselyne Edwards (women’s bantamweight)

Jacobe Smith vs Seokhyeon Ko (welterweight)

Ode Osbourne vs Alibi Idiris (flyweight)

Julianna Miller vs Carli Judice (women’s bantamweight)

Chidi Njokuani vs Carlos Leal (welterweight)

Saturday 28 February – UFC Fight Night – Arena CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico

Two-time UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno (Getty Images)

Brandon Moreno vs Asu Almabayev (flyweight)

Macy Chiasson vs Ailin Perez (women’s bantamweight)

Cristian Quinonez vs Kris Moutinho (bantamweight)

Santiago Luna vs Angel Pacheco (bantamweight)

Sofia Montenegro vs Ernesta Kareckaite (women’s flyweight)

Damian Pinas vs Wes Schultz (middleweight)

Ryan Gandra vs Jose Daniel Medina (middleweight)

Edgar Chairez vs Felipe Bunes (flyweight)

Imanol Rodriguez vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)

Saturday 7 March – UFC 326 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US

Will Max Holloway retain his ‘BMF’ title against Charles Oliveira? (USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con)

Max Holloway (C) vs Charles Oliveira 2 (“Baddest Motherf****r” title)

Renato Moicano vs Brian Ortega 2 (lightweight)

Caio Borralho vs Reinier de Ridder (middleweight)

Paulo Costa vs Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)

Cody Garbrandt vs Long Xiao (bantamweight)

Sumudaerji vs Jesus Aguilar (flyweight)

Saturday 14 March – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 21 March – UFC Fight Night – O2 Arena, London, UK

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 28 March – UFC Fight Night – Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, US

Israel Adesanya vs Joe Pyfer (middleweight)

Alexa Grasso vs Maycee Barber 2 (women’s flyweight)