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Another year of UFC motion is upon us. Fans will hope for the long-awaited return of Conor McGregor, however MMA’s flagship promotion is producing extra stars with every passing month, and plenty of of them have already got bouts scheduled for 2024.
While McGregor’s deliberate fight with Michael Chandler remains to be up within the air, the primary three pay-per-view of the year will see title contests involving the controversial Sean Strickland, featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski, and celebrity Sean O’Malley.
Strickland produced an all-time nice upset to win the middleweight title from Israel Adesanya in 2023, and he’ll defend the belt for the primary time when he faces Dricus Du Plessis in January. Then, Volkanovski places his gold on the road towards rising contender Ilia Topuria in February. In March, O’Malley will defend his bantamweight belt in a rematch with the one man to beat him, Marlon “Chito” Vera, earlier than UFC 300 rolls round in April.
Elsewhere, the vacant ladies’s bantamweight title is up for grabs between Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva in January, and there are loads extra nice fights arising. Check out all the UFC’s confirmed fights for 2024, under (playing cards topic to alter):
Saturday 13 January – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
Magomed Anakalaev is held again after a controversial finish to his first fight with Johnny Walker
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Main card
Magomed Ankalaev vs Johnny Walker 2 (light-heavyweight)
Matheus Nicolau vs Manel Kape (flyweight)
Jim Miller vs Gabriel Benitez (light-weight)
Ketlen Vieira vs Macy Chiasson (ladies’s bantamweight)
Ricky Simon vs Mario Bautista (bantamweight)
Phil Hawes vs Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)
Prelims
Andrei Arlovski vs Waldo Cortes-Acosta (heavyweight)
Bassil Hafez vs Preston Parsons (welterweight)
Marcus McGhee vs Gaston Bolanos (bantamweight)
Yana Santos vs Norma Dumont (ladies’s bantamweight)
Farid Basharat vs Taylor Lapilus (bantamweight)
Gabriel Santos vs Westin Wilson (featherweight)
Nikolas Motta vs Tom Nolan (light-weight)
Felipe Bunes vs Denys Bondar (flyweight)
Saturday 20 January – UFC 297 – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Canada
A tearful Sean Strickland was topped UFC middleweight champion in September
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Sean Strickland (C) vs Dricus Du Plessis (middleweight title)
Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva (vacant ladies’s bantamweight title)
Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic 2 (light-heavyweight)
Arnold Allen vs Movsar Evloev (featherweight)
Dominick Reyes vs Carlos Ulberg (light-heavyweight)
Neil Magny vs Mike Malott (welterweight)
Brad Katona vs Garrett Armfield (bantamweight)
Chris Curtis vs Marc-Andre Barriault (middleweight)
Charles Jourdain vs Sean Woodson (featherweight)
Gillian Robertson vs Polyana Viana (ladies’s strawweight)
Serhiy Sidey vs Ramon Taveras (bantamweight)
Yohan Lainesse vs Sam Patterson (welterweight)
Jasmine Jasudavicius vs Priscila Cachoeira (ladies’s flyweight)
Malcolm Gordon vs Jimmy Flick (flyweight)
Saturday 3 February – UFC Fight Night – UFC Apex, Las Vegas, US
UFC middleweight contender Roman Dolidze
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Roman Dolidze vs Nassourdine Imavov (middleweight)
Molly McCann vs Diana Belbita (ladies’s strawweight)
William Gomis vs Melsik Baghdasaryan (featherweight)
Themba Gorimbo vs Kiefer Crosbie (welterweight)
Jeongyeong Lee vs Blake Bilder (featherweight)
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 (light-weight)
Michael Johnson vs Darrius Flowers (light-weight)
Rodolfo Vieira vs Armen Petrosyan (light-weight)
Trevin Giles vs Carlos Prates (welterweight)
Max Griffin vs Jeremiah Wells (welterweight)
Loma Lookboonmee vs Bruna Brasil (ladies’s strawweight)
Robert Bryczek vs Albert Duraev (middleweight)
Zac Pauga vs Bogdan Guskov (light-heavyweight)
Saturday 17 February – UFC 298 – Honda Center, Anaheim, US
Alexander Volkanovski celebrates his stoppage victory over Yair Rodriguez
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Alexander Volkanovski (C) vs Ilia Topuria (featherweight title)
Merab Dvalishvili vs Henry Cejudo (bantamweight)
Tai Tuivasa vs Marcin Tybura (heavyweight)
Tatiana Suarez vs Amanda Lemos (ladies’s strawweight)
Anthony Hernandez vs Ikram Aliskerov (middleweight)
Andrea Lee vs Miranda Maverick (ladies’s flyweight)
Marcos Rogerio de Lima vs Justin Tafa (heavyweight)
Zhang Mingyang vs Brendson Ribeiro (light-heavyweight)
Yusaku Kinoshita vs Danny Barlow (welterweight)
Saturday 9 March – UFC 299 – Kaseya Center, Miami, US
Sean O’Malley celebrates his second-round knockout of Aljamain Sterling
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Sean O’Malley (C) vs Marlon “Chito” Vera 2 (bantamweight title)
Petr Yan vs Song Yadong (bantamweight)
Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry (welterweight)
Gilbert Burns vs Jack Della Maddalena (welterweight)
Kevin Holland vs Michael “Venom” Page (welterweight)
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