UFC Schedule Preview: What cities will the UFC be in 2025?

The UFC has updated its schedule. The promotion has been organizing international events because of increasing global popularity while maintaining its base American audience.

How Many Events The UFC is going to host in 2025? (Events in January and February are Not Included)

The UFC will host 13 events including fight nights and pay-per-view events from March 08 to June 29. More events are yet to be announced for latter half of the year.

UFC in March.

UFC 313: Alex Pereira vs. Magomed Ankalaev

Date: March / 08 / 2025

Venue: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States.

Fight Card

Main Card

Alex Pereira © vs. Magomed Ankalaev (Main Event) (Light Heavyweight Championship)
Justin Gaethje vs. Rafael Fiziev (Co-Main Event) (Lightweight)
Jalin Turner vs. Ignacio Bahamondes (Lightweight)
Amanda Lemos vs. Iasmin Lucindo (Women’s strawweight)
King Green vs. Mauricio Ruffy.

Prelims

Curtis Blaydes vs. Rizwan Kuniev (Heavyweight)
Joshua Van vs. Rei Tsuruya (Flyweight)
Brunno Ferreira vs. Armen Petrosyan (Middleweight)
Alex Morono vs. Carlos Leal (Welterweight)

Early Prelims

Mairon Santos vs. Francis Marshall (Featherweight)
Djorden Ribeiro dos Santos vs. Osman Diaz (Middleweight)

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2

Date: March / 15 / 2025

Venue: UFC Apex, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.

Fight Card

Main Card

Marvin Vettori vs. Roman Dolidze (Main Event) (Middleweight)
Chidi Njokuani vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (Co-Main Event) (Welterweight)
Choi Seung-woo vs. Kevin Vallejos (Featherweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs. Kurt Holobaugh (Lightweight)
Da’Mon Blackshear vs. Cody Gibson (Bantamweight)
You Su-young vs. AJ Cunningham (Bantamweight)

Prelims.

Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Ryan Spann (Light Heavyweight)
Stephanie Luciano vs. Sam Hughes (Women’s Strawweight)
Diyar Nurgozhay vs. Brendson Rivero (Light Heavyweight)
Carlos Vera vs. Josias Musasa (Bantamweight)
Daniel Berez vs. Andre Lima (Flyweight)
Josiane Nunes vs. Priscilla Cachoeira (Women’s Bantamweight)
Evan Elder vs. MarQuel Mederos (Lightweight)
Yuneisy Duben vs. Carli Judice. (Women’s Flyweight)

UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady

Date: March / 22 / 2025

Venue: London, O2 Arena, England.

Fight Card

Main Card

Leon Edwards vs. Sean Brady (Welterweight)
Jan Blachowicz vs. Carlos Ulberg (Light Heavyweight)
Gunnar Nelson vs. Kevin Holland (Welterweight)
Molly McCann vs. Istela Nunes (Women’s Flyweight)
Jordan Vucenic vs. Chris Duncan (Lightweight)
Nathaniel Wood vs. Morgan Charriere.

Prelims

Jai Herbert vs. Chris Padilla (Lightweight)
Lone’er Kavanagh vs. Felipe Dos Santos (Flyweight)
Marcin Tybura vs. Mick Parkin (Heavyweight)
Christian Leroy Duncan vs. Andre Pulyaev. (Middleweight)
Shauna Bannon vs. Puja Tomar. (Women’s Strawweight)
Nathan Fletcher vs. Caolan Loughran. (Bantamweight)

UFC on ESPN: Moreno vs. Erceg.

Date: March / 29 / 2024

Venue: Arena CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico.

Fight Card

Main Card

Brandon Moreno vs. Steve Erceg (Main Event) (Flyweight)
Manuel Torres vs. Drew Dober (Co-Main Event) (Lightweight)
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Joe Pyfer (Middleweight)
David Martinez vs. Saimon Oliveira (Bantamweight)
Ronaldo Rodriguez vs. Kevin Borjas (Flyweight)

Prelims

Edgar Chairez vs. CJ Vergara (Flyweight)
Jose Daniel Media vs. Ateba Ageta Gautier (Middleweight)
Loopy Godinez vs. Julia Polastri (Women’s Strawweight)
Rafa Garcia vs. Vinc Pichel (Lightweight)
Austin Hubbard vs. TBD (Lightweight)
Christian Rodriguez vs. Melquizael Costa (Featherweight)
Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Vinc Pichel (Bantamweight)

UFC in April

UFC Fight Night: Emmet vs. Murphy

Date: April / 05 / 2025

Venue: UFC Apex, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fight Card

Main Card

Josh Emmett vs. Lerone Murphy (Main Event) (Featherweight)
Pat Sabatini vs. Joeanderson Brito (Co-Main Event) (Featherweight)
Cortavious Romious vs. Lee Chang-Ho (Bantamweight)
Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Martin Buday (Heavyweight)
Torrey Finney vs. Robert Valentin (Middleweight)

Prelims

Rhys McKee vs. Daniel Frunza (Welterweight)
Diana Belbita vs. Dione Barbosa (Women’s Flyweight)
Loma Lookboonmee vs. Arianne Carnelossi (Women’s Flyweight)
Vanessa Demopoulos vs. Tatila Alencar (Women’s Strawweight)

Other Announced bouts

Ode Osbourne vs. Luis Gurule (Flyweight)
Davey Grant vs. Daniel Santos (Bantamweight)
Victor Henry vs. Pedro Falcao (Bantamweight)
Geral Meerschaert vs. Brad Tavares (Middleweight)

UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes

Date: April / 12 / 2025

Venue: Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida.

Announced Bouts

Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes (Main Event) (Vacant Featherweight Championship)
Michael Chandler vs. Paddy Pimblett (Co-Main Event) (Lightweight)
Bryce Mitchell vs. Jean Silva (Featherweight)
Yair Rodriguez vs. Patricio Pitbull (Featherweight)
Geoff Neal vs. Carlos Prates (Welterweight)
Dan Ige vs. Sean Woodson (Featherweight)
Nikita Krylov vs. Dominick Reyes (Light Heavyweight)
Yan Xiaonan vs. Virna Jandiroba (Women’s Strawweight)
Darren Elkins vs. Julian Erosa (Featherweight)
Jim Miller vs. Chase Hooper (Lightweight)
Alberto Montes vs. Roberto Romero (Featherweight)
Sedriques Dumas vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (Middleweight)
Su Mudaerji vs. Mitch Raposo (Flyweight)
Tresean Gore vs. Marco Tulio (Middleweight)
Nora Cornolle vs. Hailey Cowan (Women’s Bantamweight)

UFC on ESPN: Hill vs. Rountree Jr.

Date: April / 26 / 2025

Venue: T-Mobile Arena, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Announced Bouts

Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. (Main Event) (Light Heavyweight)
Randy Brown vs. Nicholas Dalby (Co-Main Event) (Welterweight)
Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cameron Saaiman (Bantamweight)
Matt Schnell vs. Jimmy Flick (Flyweight)
Mitch Ramirez vs. Ahmad Sohail Hassanzada (Lightweight)
Chelsea Chandler vs. Joselyne Edwards (Women’s Bantamweight)
Jaqueline Amorim vs. Polyana Viana (Women’s Bantamweight)
Ikram Aliskerov vs. Andre Muniz (Middleweight)
Giga Chikadze vs. David Onama (Featherweight)
Michel Pereira vs. Abuspian Magomedov (Middleweight)
Anthony Smith vs. Zhang Mingyang (Light Heavyweight)

UFC in May

UFC Fight Night 256

Date: May / 03 / 2025

Venue: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

Announced Bouts

Dieveson Figueiredo vs. Cory Sandhagen (Bantamweight)
Marlon Vera vs. Mario Bautista (Bantamweight)
Maria Rodriguez vs. Gillian Robertson (Women’s Strawweight)
Trevor Peek vs. Lee Jeong-Yeong (Featherweight)
Cameron Smotherman vs. Serhiy Sidey (Bantamweight)
Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Daniel Rodriguez (Welterweight)
Miesha Tate vs. Yana Santos (Women’s Bantamweight)
Junior Tafa vs. Tuco Tokkos (Light Heavyweight)
Montel Jackson vs. Daniel Marcos (Bantamweight)
Ryan Loder vs. Azamat Bekoev (Middleweight)

UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Maddalena

Date: May / 10 / 2025

Venue: Bell Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Announced Bouts

Belal Muhammad (C) vs. Jack Della Maddalena (Main Event) (Welterweight Championship)
Valentina Shevchenko (C) vs. Manon Fiorot (Co-Main Event) (Women’s Flyweight Championship)
Modestas Bukauskas vs. Ion Cutelaba (Light Heavyweight)
Jose Aldo vs. Aiemann Zahabi (Bantamweight)
Jessica Andrade vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius (Women’s Flyweight)
Gilbert Burns vs. Michael Morales (Welterweight)
Mike Malott vs. Charles Radtke (Welterweight)
Alexa Grasso vs. Natalia Silva (Women’s Flyweight)
Navajo Stirling vs. Iva Erslan (Light Heavyweight)
Marc Andre Barriault vs. Bruno Silva (Middleweight)
Brad Katona vs. Bezkat Almakhan (Bantamweight)
Benoit Saint-Denis vs. Joel Alvarez (Lightweight)

UFC Fight Night 257

Date: May / 17 / 2025

Venue: Lusail Sports Arena, Lusail, Qatar.

Announced Bouts

Park Jun-Young vs. Ismael Narudiev (Middleweight)
Hamdy Abdelwahab vs. Mohammad Usman (Heavyweight)
Sergei Spivac vs. Shamil Gaziev (Heavyweight)

UFC Fight Night 258

Date: May / 31 / 2025

Venue: UFC Apex, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Announced Bouts

Allan Nascimento vs. Jafel Filho (Flyweight)
Dusko Todorovic vs. Zachary Reese (Middleweight)
Dustin Jacoby vs. Bruno Lopes (Light Heavyweight)

UFC In June

UFC 316

Date: June / 07 / 2025

Venue: Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey.

Announced Bouts

Julianna Pena (C) vs. Kayla Harrison (Women’s Bantamweight Championship) (Rumored)
Alexandre Pantoja vs. TBD (Rumored – Kai Kara France)

UFC 317

Date: June / 28 / 2025

Venue: T-Mobile Arena, Nevada, Las Vegas, United States.

No Announced Bouts So Far.