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 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 205lb title run with a stoppage of Jamahal Hill. Later that night, Islam Makhachev’s next title defence was announced, and the lightweight king went on to submit Dustin Poirier in June, after Alexandre Pantoja retained the flyweight gold against Steve Erceg in May.

In July, Leon Edwards dropped the welterweight belt to Belal Muhammad on home turf in the UK, but Tom Aspinall retained the interim heavyweight strap on the same night in Manchester.

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):

Main card

Dricus Du Plessis (C) vs Israel Adesanya (middleweight title)

Kai Kara-France vs Steve Erceg (flyweight)

Mateusz Gamrot vs Dan Hooker (lightweight)

Tai Tuivasa vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik (heavyweight)

Li Jingliang vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)

Prelims

Junior Tafa vs Valter Walker (heavyweight)

Josh Culibao vs Ricardo Ramos (featherweight)

Casey O’Neill vs Luana Santos (women’s flyweight)

Jack Jenkins vs Herbert Burns (featherweight)

Early prelims

Tom Nolan vs Alex Reyes (lightweight)

Song Kenan vs Ricky Glenn (welterweight)

Stewart Nicoll vs Jesus Aguilar (flyweight)

Jared Cannonier vs Caio Borralho (middleweight)

Angela Hill vs Tabatha Ricci (women’s strawweight)

Neil Magny vs Michael Morales (welterweight)

Edmen Shahbazyan vs Gerald Meerschaert (middleweight)

Danny Silva vs Dennis Buzukja (featherweight)

Zachary Reese vs Jose Daniel Medina (middleweight)

Viacheslav Borshchev vs James Llontop (lightweight)

Jacqueline Cavalcanti vs Josiane Nunes (women’s bantamweight)

Wang Cong vs Victoria Leonardo (women’s flyweight)

Main card

Gilbert Burns vs Sean Brady (welterweight)

Jessica Andrade vs Natalia Silva (women’s flyweight)

Steve Garcia vs Kyle Nelson (featherweight)

Matt Schnell vs Alessandro Costa (flyweight)

Trevor Peek vs Yanal Ashmouz (lightweight)

Prelims

Rong Zhu vs Chris Padilla (lightweight)

Ryan Spann vs Ovince Saint-Preux (light-heavyweight)

Jaqueline Amorim vs Vanessa Demopoulos (women’s strawweight)

Isaac Dulgarian vs Brendon Marotte (featherweight)

Felipe dos Santos vs Andre Lima (flyweight)

Yi Zha vs Gabriel Santos (featherweight)

Andre Petroski vs Dylan Budka (middleweight)

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

Alexa Grasso (C) vs Valentina Shevchenko 3 (women’s flyweight title)

Brian Ortega vs Diego Lopes (featherweight)

Raul Rosas Jr vs Aoriqileng (bantamweight)

Irene Aldana vs Norma Dumont (women’s bantamweight)

Manuel Torres vs Ignacio Bahamondes (lightweight)

Edgar Chairez vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)

Ronaldo Rodriguez vs Ode’ Osbourne (flyweight)

Yazmin Jauregui vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)

Daniel Zellhuber vs Esteban Ribovics (lightweight)

Renata Moicano vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)

Nassourdine Imavov vs Brendan Allen (middleweight)

Ion Cutelaba vs Ivan Erslan (light-heavyweight)

Morgan Charriere vs AJ Cunningham (featherweight)

Fares Ziam vs Matt Frevola (lightweight)

Daniel Barez vs Victor Altamirano (flyweight)

Alex Pereira (C) vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight title)

Ilia Topuria (C) vs Max Holloway (featherweight title)

Ciryl Gane vs Alexander Volkov 2 (heavyweight)

Robert Whittaker vs Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight)

Magomed Ankalaev vs Aleksandar Rakic (light-heavyweight)

Lerone Murphy vs Dan Ige (featherweight)

Geoff Neal vs Rafael dos Anjos (welterweight)

Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs Kennedy Nzechukwu (heavyweight)

Abus Magomedov vs Bruno Ferreira (middleweight)

Rinat Fakhretdinov vs Nursulton Ruziboev (welterweight)

Erin Blanchfield vs Rose Namajunas (women’s flyweight)

Derrick Lewis vs Alexandr Romanov (heavyweight)

Chad Anheliger vs Cody Gibson (bantamweight)

Marc-Andre Barriault vs Dustin Stoltzfus (middleweight)

Ariane da Silva vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (women’s flyweight)

Jamey-Lyn Horth vs Ivana Petrovic (women’s flyweight)

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