UFC schedule 2024: Every fight happening this year
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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 has been delayed again due to the Irishman’s latest injury, 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, and the lightweight king went on to submit Dustin Poirier in June, after Alexandre Pantoja retained the flyweight gold against Steve Erceg in May.
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):
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Saturday 15 June – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Alex Perez vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight)
Andre Muniz vs Ikram Aliskerov (middleweight)
Timmy Cuamba vs Lucas Almeida (featherweight)
Douglas Silva de Andrade vs Miles Johns (bantamweight)
Asu Almabayev vs Jose Johnson (flyweight)
Brady Hiestand vs Garrett Armfield (bantamweight)
Prelims
Tagir Ulanbekov vs Joshua Van (flyweight)
Jimmy Flick vs Nate Maness (flyweight)
Josh Quinlan vs Adam Fugitt (welterweight)
Carli Judice vs Gabriella Fernandes (women’s flyweight)
Jeka Saragih vs Westin Wilson (featherweight)
Josefine Knutsson vs Julia Polastri (women’s strawweight)
Melquizael Costa vs Shayilan Nuerdanbieke (featherweight)
Saturday 22 June – UFC Fight Night – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Main card
Robert Whittaker vs Ikram Aliskerov (middleweight)
Sergei Pavlovich vs Alexander Volkov (heavyweight)
Johnny Walker vs Volkan Oezdemir (light-heavyweight)
Kelvin Gastelum vs Daniel Rodriguez (welterweight)
Shara Magomedov vs Joilton Lutterbach (middleweight)
Muhammad Naimov vs Melsik Baghdasaryan (featherweight)
Prelims
Magomed Gadzhiyasulov vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)
Farid Basharat vs Montel Jackson (bantamweight)
Abu Azaitar vs Denis Tiuliulin (middleweight)
Rinat Fakhretdinov vs Nicolas Dalby (welterweight)
Nasrat Haqparast vs Jared Gordon (lightweight)
Kyung Ho Kang vs Muin Gafurov (bantamweight)
Xiao Long vs Chang Ho Lee (bantamweight)
Saturday 29 June – UFC 303 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
Alex Pereira (C) vs Jiri Prochazka 2 (light-heavyweight)
Anthony Smith vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)
Ian Machado Garry vs Michael Page (welterweight)
Mayra Bueno Silva vs Macy Chiasson (women’s bantamweight)
Payton Talbott vs Yanis Ghemmouri (bantamweight)
Cub Swanson vs Andre Fili (featherweight)
Joe Pyfer vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)
Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Gillian Robertson (women’s strawweight)
Andre Arlovski vs Martin Buday (heavyweight)
Ricky Simon vs Vinicius Oliveira (bantamweight)
Charles Jourdain vs Jean Silva (featherweight)
Rei Tsuruya vs Carlos Hernandez (flyweight)
Saturday 13 July – UFC Fight Night – TBA, Denver, US
Maycee Barber vs Rose Namajunas (women’s flyweight)
Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Muslim Salikhov (middleweight)
Viviane Araujo vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)
Drew Dober vs Mike Davis (lightweight)
Mike Malott vs Gilbert Urbina (welterweight)
Gabriel Bonfim vs Ange Loosa (welterweight)
Abdul Razak Alhassan vs Cody Brundage (middleweight)
Josh Fremd vs Andre Petroski (middleweight)
Julian Erosa vs Christian Rodriguez (featherweight)
Luana Santos vs Mariya Agapova (women’s flyweight)
Saturday 20 July – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
TBA vs TBA
Brad Tavares vs Jun-yong Park (middleweight)
Tracy Cortez vs Miranda Maverick (women’s flyweight)
Jeong Yeong Lee vs Hyder Amil (featherweight)
Dooho Choi vs Bill Algeo (featherweight)
Steve Garcia vs Seung-woo Choi (featherweight)
Saturday 27 July – UFC 304 – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
Main card
Leon Edwards (C) vs Belal Muhammad 2 (welterweight title)
Tom Aspinall (C) vs Curtis Blaydes 2 (interim heavyweight title)
Bobby Green vs Paddy Pimblett (lightweight)
Arnold Allen vs Giga Chikadze (featherweight)
Muhammad Mokaev vs Manel Kape (flyweight)
Prelims
Molly McCann vs Bruna Brasil (women’s strawweight)
Nathaniel Wood vs Daniel Pineda (featherweight)
Mick Parkin vs Lukasz Brzeski (heavyweight)
Shauna Bannon vs Ravena Oliveira (women’s bantamweight)
Christian Leroy Duncan vs Robert Bryczek (middleweight)
Oban Elliott vs Preston Parsons (welterweight)
Caolan Loughran vs Ramon Taveras (bantamweight)
Modestas Bukauskas vs Marcin Prachnio (light-heavyweight)
Sam Patterson vs Kiefer Crosbie (welterweight)
Saturday 3 August – UFC Fight Night – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cory Sandhagen vs Umar Nurmagomedov (bantamweight)
Nick Diaz vs Vicente Luque (welterweight)
Marlon “Chito” Vera vs Deiveson Figueiredo (bantamweight)
Mackenzie Dern vs Loopy Godinez (women’s strawweight)
Tony Ferguson vs Michael Chiesa (welterweight)
Saturday 17 August – UFC 305 – RAC Arena, Perth, Australia
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 28 September – UFC Fight Night – Accor Arena, Paris, France
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 27 October – UFC 308 – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE
TBA vs TBA
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