Another year of UFC action is upon us. Fans anticipate the long-awaited return of Conor McGregor, but MMA’s flagship promotion is producing more stars with each passing month, and many of them already have bouts scheduled for 2024.

While McGregor’s planned fight with Michael Chandler is seemingly set for June, the first three pay-per-view of the year will see title contests involving the controversial Sean Strickland, featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski, and crossover star Sean O’Malley.

Strickland produced an all-time great upset to win the middleweight title from Israel Adesanya in 2023, and he will defend the belt for the first time when he faces Dricus Du Plessis in January. Then, Volkanovski puts his gold on the line against rising contender Ilia Topuria in February. In March, O’Malley will defend his bantamweight belt in a rematch with the only man to beat him, Marlon “Chito” Vera, before UFC 300 rolls around in April.

Elsewhere, the vacant women’s bantamweight title is up for grabs between Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva in January, 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 13 January – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

Main card

Magomed Ankalaev vs Johnny Walker 2 (light-heavyweight)

Matheus Nicolau vs Manel Kape (flyweight)

Jim Miller vs Gabriel Benitez (lightweight)

Ricky Simon vs Mario Bautista (bantamweight)

Phil Hawes vs Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)

Prelims

Andrei Arlovski vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta (heavyweight)

Matthew Semelsberger vs Preston Parsons (welterweight)

Marcus McGhee vs Gaston Bolanos (bantamweight)

Farid Basharat vs Taylor Lapilus (bantamweight)

Westin Wilson vs Jean Silva (featherweight)

Nikolas Motta vs Tom Nolan (lightweight)

Joshua Van vs Felipe Bunes (flyweight)

Saturday 20 January – UFC 297 – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Canada

Main card

Sean Strickland (C) vs Dricus Du Plessis (middleweight title)

Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva (vacant women’s bantamweight title)

Arnold Allen vs Movsar Evloev (featherweight)

Neil Magny vs Mike Malott (welterweight)

Chris Curtis vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)

Prelims

Brad Katona vs Garrett Armfield (bantamweight)

Charles Jourdain vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)

Serhiy Sidey vs Ramon Taveras (bantamweight)

Gillian Robertson vs Polyana Viana (women’s strawweight)

Early prelims

Yohan Lainesse vs Sam Patterson (welterweight)

Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Priscila Cachoeira (women’s flyweight)

Malcolm Gordon vs Jimmy Flick (flyweight)

Saturday 3 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

Roman Dolidze vs Nassourdine Imavov (middleweight)

Renato Moicano vs Drew Dober (lightweight)

Viviane Araujo vs Natalia Silva (women’s flyweight)

Molly McCann vs Diana Belbita (women’s strawweight)

William Gomis vs Melsik Baghdasaryan (featherweight)

Gilbert Urbina vs Charles Radtke (welterweight)

Luana Carolina vs Julija Stoliarenko (women’s flyweight)

Aliaskhab Khizriev vs Makhmud Muradov (middleweight)

Themba Gorimbo vs Kiefer Crosbie (welterweight)

Jeongyeong Lee vs Blake Bilder (featherweight)

Nate Maness vs Azat Maksum (flyweight)

Landon Quinones vs Marquel Mederos (lightweight)

Thomas Petersen vs Jamal Pogues (heavyweight)

Saturday 10 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US

Jack Hermansson vs Joe Pyfer (middleweight)

Dan Ige vs Lerone Murphy (featherweight)

Brad Tavares vs Gregory Rodrigues (middleweight)

Damir Hadzovic vs Bolaji Oki (lightweight)

Michael Johnson vs Darrius Flowers (lightweight)

Rodolfo Vieira vs Armen Petrosyan (lightweight)

Trevin Giles vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)

Max Griffin vs Jeremiah Wells (welterweight)

Loma Lookboonmee vs Bruna Brasil (women’s strawweight)

Robert Bryczek vs Albert Duraev (middleweight)

Zac Pauga vs Bogdan Guskov (light-heavyweight)

Daniel Marcos vs Aoriqileng (bantamweight)

Devin Clark vs Marcin Prachnio (light-heavyweight)

Shayilan Nuerdanbieke vs Hyder Amil (featherweight)

Saturday 17 February – UFC 298 – Honda Center, Anaheim, US

Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Ilia Topuria (featherweight title)

Merab Dvalishvili vs Henry Cejudo (bantamweight)

Robert Whittaker vs Paulo Costa (middleweight)

Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry (welterweight)

Tai Tuivasa vs Marcin Tybura (heavyweight)

Tatiana Suarez vs Amanda Lemos (women’s strawweight)

Anthony Hernandez vs Ikram Aliskerov (middleweight)

Andrea Lee vs Miranda Maverick (women’s flyweight)

Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs Justin Tafa (heavyweight)

Zhang Mingyang vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)

Yusaku Kinoshita vs Danny Barlow (welterweight)

Saturday 24 February – UFC Fight Night – Arena CDMX, Mexico City, Mexico

Brandon Moreno vs Amir Albazi (flyweight)

Yair Rodriguez vs Brian Ortega 2 (featherweight)

Manuel Torres vs Chris Duncan (lightweight)

Jesus Aguilar vs Mateus Mendonca (flyweight)

Yazmin Jauregui vs Sam Hughes (women’s strawweight)

Edgar Chairez vs Daniel Lacerda (flyweight)

Victor Altamirano vs Felipe dos Santos (flyweight)

Saturday 2 March – UFC Fight Night – Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

TBA vs TBA

Saturday 9 March – UFC 299 – Kaseya Center, Miami, US

Sean O’Malley (C) vs Marlon “Chito” Vera 2 (bantamweight title)

Dustin Poirier vs Benoit Saint-Denis (lightweight)

Petr Yan vs Song Yadong (bantamweight)

Curtis Blaydes vs Jailton Almeida (heavyweight)

Gilbert Burns vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)

Mateusz Gamrot vs Rafael dos Anjos (lightweight)

Kevin Holland vs Michael “Venom” Page (welterweight)

Katlyn Chookagian vs Maycee Barber (women’s flyweight)

Pedro Munhoz vs Kyler Phillips (bantamweight)

Lauren Murphy vs Karine Silva (women’s flyweight)

Michel Pereira vs Michal Oleksijczuk (middleweight)

CJ Vergara vs Assu Almabayev (flyweight)

Robelis Despaigne vs Josh Parisian (heavyweight)

Saturday 30 March – UFC Fight Night – Boardwalk Hall, New Jersey, US

Erin Blanchfield vs Manon Fiorot (women’s flyweight)

Saturday 6 April – UFC Fight Night – TBA

Marvin Vettori vs Brendan Allen (middleweight)

Saturday 13 April – UFC 300 – T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, US

TBA vs TBA

Charles Oliveira vs Arman Tsarukyan (lightweight)

Jiri Prochazka vs Aleksandar Rakic (light-heavyweight)

Aljamain Sterling vs Calvin Kattar (featherweight)

Bo Nickal vs Cody Brundage (middleweight)

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