UFC schedule 2025: Every fight announced this year

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 beat Diego Lopes for the vacant featherweight belt, after Ilia Topuria shockingly relinquished the gold, while May brought welterweight and women’s flyweight title bouts: a title loss for Belal Muhammad against Jack Della Maddalena, and a retention for Valentina Shevchenko over Manon Fiorot.

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):

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Main card

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

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

Kelvin Gastelum vs Joe Pyfer (middleweight)

Mario Bautista vs Patchy Mix (bantamweight)

Vicente Luque vs Kevin Holland (welterweight)

Prelims

Bruno Silva vs Joshua Van (flyweight)

Azamat Murzakanov vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)

Serghei Spivac vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta (heavyweight)

Khaos Williams vs Andreas Gustafsson (welterweight)

Early prelims

Ariane da Silva vs Wang Cong (women’s flyweight)

Jeka Saragih vs Joosang Yoo (featherweight)

Quillan Salkilld vs Yanal Ashmouz (lightweight)

Marquel Mederos vs Mark Choinski (lightweight)

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Kamaru Usman vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)

Rose Namajunas vs Miranda Maverick (women’s flyweight)

Edmen Shahbazyan vs Andre Petroski (middleweight)

Cody Garbrandt vs Raoni Barcelos (bantamweight)

Mansur Abdul-Malik vs Cody Brundage (middleweight)

Alonzo Menifield vs Oumar Sy (light-heavyweight)

Prelims

Paul Craig vs Rodolfo Bellato (light-heavyweight)

Michael Chiesa vs Court McGee (welterweight)

Cody Durden vs Jose Ochoa (flyweight)

Ricky Simon vs Charles Jourdain (bantamweight)

Tereza Bleda vs Jamey-Lyn Horth (women’s flyweight)

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Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight)

Rafael Fiziev vs Ignacio Bahamondes (lightweight)

Tofiq Musayev vs Myktybek Orolbai (lightweight)

Curtis Blaydes vs Rizvan Kuniev (heavyweight)

Nazim Sadykhov vs Nikolas Motta (lightweight)

Muhammad Naimov vs Bogdan Grad (featherweight)

Prelims

Tagir Ulanbekov vs Azat Maksum (flyweight)

Ismail Naurdiev vs Junyong Park (middleweight)

Melissa Mullins vs Daria Zhelezniakova (women’s bantamweight)

Hamdy Abdelwahab vs Mohammed Usman (heavyweight)

Seokhyeon Ko vs Oban Elliot (welterweight)

Irina Alekseeva vs Klaudia Sygula (women’s bantamweight)

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Ilia Topuria vs Charles Oliveira (vacant lightweight title)

Alexandre Pantoja (C) vs Kai Kara-France (flyweight title)

Beneil Dariush vs Renato Moicano (lightweight)

Brandon Royval vs Manel Kape (flyweight)

Paulo Costa vs Roman Kopylov (middleweight)

Jack Hermansson vs Gregory Rodrigues (middleweight)

Jhonata Diniz vs Justin Tafa (heavyweight)

Viviane Araujo vs Tracy Cortez (women’s strawweight)

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Derrick Lewis vs Tallison Teixeira (heavyweight)

Jake Matthews vs Chidi Njokuani (welterweight)

Calvin Kattar vs Steve Garcia (featherweight)

Junior Tafa vs Tuco Tokkos (light-heavyweight)

Ateba Gautier vs Robert Valentin (middleweight)

Vitor Petrino vs Austen Lane (heavyweight)

Max Griffin vs Chris Curtis (welterweight)

Fatima Kline vs Melissa Martinez (women’s strawweight)

Lauren Murphy vs Eduarda Moura (women’s flyweight)

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Max Holloway (C) vs Dustin Poirier 3 (‘BMF’ title; lightweight)

Marvin Vettori vs Brendan Allen 2 (middleweight)

Neil Magny vs Gunnar Nelson (welterweight)

Adam Fugitt vs Islam Dulatov (welterweight)

Ikram Aliskerov vs Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)

Jimmy Crute vs Marcin Prachnio (light-heavyweight)

Carli Judice vs Nicolle Caliari (women’s flyweight)

Kyler Phillips vs Vinicius Oliveira (bantamweight)

Amanda Ribas vs Tabatha Ricci (women’s strawweight)

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Robert Whittaker vs Reinier de Ridder (middleweight)

Shara Magomedov vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)

Nikita Krylov vs Bogdan Guskov (light-heavyweight)

Asu Almabayev vs Ramazan Temirov (flyweight)

Ibo Aslan vs Billy Elekana (light-heavyweight)

Amir Albazi vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight)

Karol Rosa vs Nora Cornolle (women’s bantamweight)

Nick Klein vs Andrey Pulyaev (middleweight)

Rodolfo Vieira vs Tresean Gore (middleweight)

Andre Lima vs Felipe Bunes (flyweight)

Piera Rodriguez vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)

Azamat Bekoev vs Torrez Finney (middleweight)

Roman Dolidze vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)

Alex Perez vs Steve Eerceg (flyweight)

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Dricus Du Plessis (C) vs Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight title)

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