Any card left throughout the year

We are in the fourth quarter of 2024 and there are only six UFC events left for the year.

Here’s an overview of them, including how to watch and why you might want to watch each event.

November 2nd – UFC Fight Night Edmonton

• Main Event – ​​No. 2 Brandon Moreno vs. No. 3 Amir Albazi – Men’s Flyweight
• Co-Main Event – ​​No. 3 Erin Blanchfield vs. No. 5 Rose Namajunas – Women’s Strawweight
• Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

As far as UFC Fight Night events go, this one is one of the front runners – at least in terms of popularity. The card features two former champions and one, Namajunas, is a future UFC Hall of Famer. Moreno, the other former champion, could be the only person standing between Albazi and a title shot at 125 pounds.

A total of nine ranked opponents are scheduled to play in Edmonton. If you’re an MMA fan, checking this out is a no-brainer.

November 9th – UFC Vegas 100

• Main Event – ​​No. 15 Neil Magny vs. Carlos Prates
• Co-Main Event – ​​Cody Garbrandt vs. Miles John
• Time: 4:00 p.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

The UFC Vegas cards are usually in the lowest category of cards featuring signed fighters with recognizable names. Since this is the 100th event in the UFC’s Apex, the significance may be a little greater.

Magny is barely clinging to his spot at welterweight, and Prates looks like the guy with the scissors. However, we’ve seen Magny in a similar situation before, like when he upset the vaunted Mike Malott in January and watched the Haitian Sensation emerge victorious. Coming from the Fighting Nerds camp, Prates looks like a different beast, so we’ll see.

Former bantamweight champion Garbrandt fights Johns in the co-main event, and four ranked fighters are on the card. As for debuts, former ONE Championship star Reinier de Ridder makes his first Octagon walk against Gerald Meerschaert and Dana White Contender Series Season 8 standouts Mansur Abdul Malik and Cortavious Romious make their main roster debuts.

November 16 – UFC 309

• Main Event – ​​(c) Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic – UFC Heavyweight Championship
• Co-Main Event – ​​Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler
• Time: 10 p.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

The greatest mixed martial artist of all time is back in action, and that could be a good reason for anyone who likes MMA. Depending on how you look at it, Jones was the recipient or the victim of White’s multi-pronged campaign to smear Francis Ngannou, as the UFC boss has praised Bones with renewed vigor since the Predator left his organization for the Professional Fighters League.

In any case, Jones is still the best in the sport. Miocic is the most successful heavyweight in history, so this clash is only natural. Should something fail, interim champion Tom Aspinall would step in to replace Jones or Miocic.

In the co-main we get the rematch no one wanted. Oliveira struggled with Chandler in the first round of their first fight, but destroyed him in the second with superior boxing. Since then, Chandler has gone 1-2, with his only win coming over Tony Ferguson, who has lost seven fights in a row.

Maybe Chandler has something in store for Oliveira, but the former will likely be a big underdog. Despite Jones’ presence, on paper this card is one of the weakest UFC pay-per-views of the year.

November 23 – UFC Fight Night Macau

• Main Event – ​​No. 3 Petr Yan vs. No. 5 Deiveson Figueiredo
• Co-Main Event – ​​No. 2 Yan Xiaonan vs. No. 10 Tabatha Ricci
• Time: 6 a.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

I love this card, but I wish I didn’t have to wake up with the roosters to look at it. As it is, the entire main card is compelling. Yan vs. Figueiredo could be a classic, and it could also be a bantamweight title eliminator. If Ricci wins in the co-main event, she could be next in line for a title shot against Weili Zhang or whoever is strawweight champion after his next title defense.

We also have the next fight for Wang Cong, the dynamic women’s strawweight knockout artist who painted her face like the Joker for the weigh-in.

Light heavyweight slugger Zhang Mingyang is also in action, and there’s a top-10 fight at 205 pounds between Volkan Oezdemir and Carlos Ulberg. The fighters of the Road to the UFC: China event will take part in the preliminary rounds.

December 7th – UFC 310

• Main Event – ​​(c) Belal Muhammad vs. Shavkhat Rahkmonov – UFC Welterweight Championship
• Co-Main Event – ​​(c) Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Asakura – UFC Men’s Flyweight Championship
• Time: 10 p.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

Whenever two world titles are on the line, the cap on pay-per-view is higher. While Muhammad may not be the most popular current champion, he has the longest winning streak in the promotion, and Rahkmonov could argue that he is the best non-champion in the UFC right now. It could be fun to watch them clash.

In the second championship fight, Pantoja will defend his title against Asakura, and this will be his UFC debut. The card will also feature a heavyweight title eliminator between Ciryl Gane and Alexander Volkov.

We were supposed to see the return of Nick Diaz, but we’ve learned not to hold our breath on the concept. Movsar Evloev and Aljamain Sterling will meet in a crucial featherweight title fight, and we will also see the debut of standout Brazilian heavyweight Tallison Teixeira on the main roster. This is really good on paper.

December 14th – UFC Fight Night Tampa

• Main Event – ​​TBD
• Co-Main Event – ​​TBD
• Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
• TV/Stream: ESPN+

What’s in it for you?

We don’t know the main and co-main events for this card. All we know at this point is that DWCS Season 8 standout Navajo Stirling will be making his main roster debut. As more information is announced, I will update this section.

And so the UFC is scheduled to be canceled until February 8, 2025. In the meantime, I suspect I’ll be hearing several announcements about Zuffa Boxing and the new UFC ranking system.