UFC schedule 2024: Every fight happening this year
Here’s a look at every fight and event that the MMA promotion has scheduled for 2024 so far
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 is finally official for UFC 303 in June, 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 was announced, with the lightweight king set to take on 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):
Saturday 18 May – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Main card
Edson Barboza vs Lerone Murphy (featherweight)
Khaos Williams vs Carlston Harris (welterweight)
Themba Gorimbo vs Ramiz Brahimaj (welterweight)
Adrian Yanez vs Vinicius Salvador (bantamweight)
Luana Pinheiro vs Angela Hill (women’s strawweight)
Prelims
Victor Martinez vs Tom Nolan (lightweight)
Tamires Vidal vs Melissa Gatto (women’s bantamweight)
Abus Magomedov vs Warlley Alves (middleweight)
Piera Rodriguez vs Ariane Carnelossi (women’s strawweight)
Alatengheili vs Kleydson Rodrigues (bantamweight)
Vanessa Demopoulos vs Emily Ducote (women’s strawweight)
Saturday 1 June – UFC 302 – Prudential Center, New Jersey, US
Islam Makhachev (C) vs Dustin Poirier (lightweight title)
Sean Strickland vs Paulo Costa (middleweight – five rounds)
Randy Brown vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (welterweight)
Cesar Almeida vs Roman Kopylov (middleweight)
Sumudaerji vs Joshua Van (flyweight)
Hyun Sung Park vs Andre Lima (flyweight)
Niko Price vs Alex Morono (welterweight)
Jailton Almeida vs Alexandr Romanov (heavyweight)
Roman Dolidze vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)
Mickey Gall vs Bassil Hafez (welterweight)
Phil Rowe vs Jake Matthews (middleweight)
Grant Dawson vs Joe Solecki (lightweight)
Ailin Perez vs Joselyne Edwards (women’s bantamweight)
Saturday 8 June – UFC Fight Night – Yum! Center, Louisville, US
Raul Rosas Jr vs Ricky Turcios (bantamweight)
Brad Katona vs Jesse Butler (bantamweight)
Cody Stamann vs Taylor Lapilus (bantamweight)
Saturday 22 June – UFC Fight Night – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Robert Whittaker vs Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight)
Sergei Pavlovich vs Alexander Volkov (heavyweight)
Johnny Walker vs Volkan Oezdemir (light-heavyweight)
Kelvin Gastelum vs Daniel Rodriguez (welterweight)
Saturday 29 June – UFC 303 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US
Conor McGregor vs Michael Chandler (welterweight)
Jamahal Hill vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight)
Mayra Bueno Silva vs Macy Chiasson (women’s bantamweight)
Cub Swanson vs Andre Fili (featherweight)
Joe Pyfer vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)
Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Gillian Robertson (women’s strawweight)
Rei Tsuruya vs Carlos Hernandez (flyweight)
Saturday 27 July – UFC 304 – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
TBA vs TBA
Saturday 3 August – UFC Fight Night – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cory Sandhagen vs Umar Nurmagomedov (bantamweight)
Saturday 18 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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