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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. Also in June, Pereira knocked out Jiri Prochazka for the second time in seven months to retain the light-heavyweight belt.
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. Then, in August, Du Plessis retained his 185lb belt with a submission of divisional great Israel Adesanya.
And there are plenty more intriguing fights coming up. Check out all of the UFC’s confirmed fights for the rest of 2024, below (cards subject to change):
Saturday 7 September – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
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)
Rong Zhu vs Chris Padilla (lightweight)
Prelims
Ryan Spann vs Ovince Saint-Preux (light-heavyweight)
Isaac Dulgarian vs Brendon Marotte (featherweight)
Felipe dos Santos vs Andre Lima (flyweight)
Yi Zha vs Gabriel Santos (featherweight)
Jaqueline Amorim vs Vanessa Demopoulos (women’s strawweight)
Andre Petroski vs Dylan Budka (middleweight)
Zygimantas Ramaska vs Nathan Fletcher (featherweight)
Saturday 14 September – UFC 306: Noche – Sphere, Las Vegas, US
Main card
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)
Daniel Zellhuber vs Esteban Ribovics (lightweight)
Ronaldo Rodriguez vs Ode’ Osbourne (flyweight)
Prelims
Irene Aldana vs Norma Dumont (women’s bantamweight)
Manuel Torres vs Ignacio Bahamondes (lightweight)
Yazmin Jauregui vs Ketlen Souza (women’s strawweight)
Edgar Chairez vs Kevin Borjas (flyweight)
Early prelims
Raul Rosas Jr vs Aoriqileng (bantamweight)
Saturday 28 September – UFC Fight Night –Accor Arena, Paris, France
Main card
Renata Moicano vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)
Nassourdine Imavov vs Brendan Allen (middleweight)
William Gomis vs Joanderson Brito (featherweight)
Kevin Jousset vs Bryan Battle (welterweight)
Morgan Charriere vs AJ Cunningham (featherweight)
Prelims
Fares Ziam vs Matt Frevola (lightweight)
Ion Cutelaba vs Ivan Erslan (light-heavyweight)
Germaine de Randamie vs Nora Cornolle (women’s bantamweight)
Oumar Sy vs Da Woon Jung (light-heavyweight)
Bolaji Oki vs Chris Duncan (lightweight)
Daria Zhelezniakova vs Ailin Perez (women’s bantamweight)
Daniel Barez vs Victor Altamirano (flyweight)
Ludovit Klein vs Nikolas Motta (lightweight)
Saturday 5 October – UFC 307 – Delta Center, Salt Lake City, US
Alex Pereira (C) vs Khalil Rountree Jr (light-heavyweight title)
Raquel Pennington (C) vs Julianna Pena (women’s bantamweight title)
Stephen Thompson vs Joaquin Buckley (welterweight)
Jose Aldo vs Mario Bautista (featherweight)
Roman Dolidze vs Kevin Holland (middleweight)
Movsar Evloev vs Aljamain Sterling (featherweight)
Ketlen Vieira vs Kayla Harrison (women’s bantamweight)
Marina Rodriguez vs Iasmin Lucino (women’s strawweight)
Cesar Almeida vs Ihor Potieria (middleweight)
Carla Esparza vs Tecia Pennington (women’s strawweight)
Saturday 12 October – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Brandon Royval vs Tatsuro Taira (flyweight)
Abdul Razak Alhassan vs Josh Fremd (middleweight)
Clayton Carpenter vs Lucas Rocha (flyweight)
Chris Barnett vs Waldo Cortes Acosta (heavyweight)
Polyana Viana vs Cory McKenna (women’s strawweight)
CJ Vergara vs Ramazan Temirov (flyweight)
Grant Dawson vs Rafa Garcia (lightweight)
Themba Gorimbo vs Niko Price (welterweight)
Chidi Njokuani vs Jared Gooden (welterweight)
Saturday 19 October – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Michel Pereira vs Anthony Hernandez (middleweight)
Brad Katona vs Jean Matsumoto (bantamweight)
Saturday 26 October – UFC 308 – Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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)
Shara Magomedov vs Armen Petrosyan (middleweight)
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)
Ibo Aslan vs Rafael Cerqueira (light-heavyweight)
Mateusz Rebecki vs Myktybek Orolbai (lightweight)
Saturday 2 November – UFC Fight Night – Rogers Place, Edmonton, Canada
Erin Blanchfield vs Rose Namajunas (women’s flyweight)
Derrick Lewis vs Jhonata Diniz (heavyweight)
Aiemann Zahabi vs Pedro Munhoz (bantamweight)
Mike Malott vs Trevin Giles (welterweight)
Caio Machado vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)
Alexandr Romanov vs Rodrigo Nascimento (heavyweight)
Chad Anheliger vs Cody Gibson (bantamweight)
Serhiy Sidey vs Garrett Armfield (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)
Saturday 9 November – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Mansur Abdul-Malik vs Dusko Todorovic (middleweight)
Saturday 16 November – UFC 309 – Madison Square Garden, New York City, US
TBA
Saturday 23 November – UFC Fight Night – Galaxy Arena, Macau, China
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Saturday 7 December – UFC 310 –T-Mobile, Las Vegas, US
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Saturday 14 December – UFC Fight Night –Amalie Arena, Tampa, US
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