What Time Does The UFC 317 Fight Card Start?

The UFC 317 pay-per-view fight card goes down tonight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The UFC lightweight and flyweight titles are on the line at the top of the event.

In the UFC 317 main event, the vacant UFC lightweight title is up for grabs when former UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria faces ex-UFC lightweight titleholder Charles Oliveira. Meanwhile in the PPV co-headliner, UFC flyweight kingpin Alexandre Pantoja meets Kai Kara-France. Also on the UFC 317 main card is a high-stakes 125-pound matchup between No. 1 ranked Brandon Royval and the fast-rising Joshua Van.

The UFC 317 PPV fight card streams on ESPN+ following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Below, we look at details for the UFC 317 main card bouts and the start time for each portion of the UFC 317 fight card.

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UFC 317 Fight Card: Date, Time, Location, How To Watch Or Stream

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025

Location: T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV

Main Card Start Time: 10:00 p.m. ET on ESPN+ Pay-Per-View

Preliminary Card Start Time: 8:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+

Early Prelims Start Time: 6:30 p.m ET on ESPN+, UFC Fight Pass

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UFC 317 Pay-Per-View Fight Card

Ilia Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira – For vacant UFC lightweight title

Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Kara-France – For Pantoja’s UFC flyweight title

Brandon Royval vs. Joshua Van – Flyweight

Beneil Dariush vs. Renato Moicano – Lightweight

Payton Talbott vs. Felipe Lima – Bantamweight

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Jack Hermansson vs. Gregory Rodrigues – Middleweight

Hyder Amil vs. Jose Miguel Delgado – Featherweight

Viviane Araujo vs. Tracy Cortez – Strawweight

Terrance McKinney vs. Viacheslav Borshchev – Lightweight

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Niko Price vs. Jacobe Smith – Welterweight

Jhonta Diniz vs. Alvin Hines – Heavyweight

Chris Ewert vs. Jackson McVey – Middleweight

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UFC 317 Main Event: Ilia Topuria Vs. Charles Oliveira

Topuria is a former Cage Warriors champion. He joined the UFC in 2020 with a 9-0 record. It did not take him long to make a name for himself. He was ranked No. 14 in the featherweight division after three UFC bouts at 145 pounds and one contest in the 155-pound division. Three of those scraps ended with Topuria winning via knockout.

In his first fight as a ranked featherweight, Topuria dispatched Bryce Mitchell via submission in the second round, earned his first “Performance of the Night” bonus and moved to No. 9 in the rankings.

A matchup with No. 5 ranked Josh Emmett followed the Mitchell win. Topuria picked up a decision in a “Fight of the Night” scrap. Topuria’s next fight, saw him face Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title at UFC 298. Topuria entered that bout as the No. 3 ranked featherweight. He left as the champion after knocking out Volkanovski in the second stanza.

In his first defense of the UFC featherweight crown, Topuria made history, becoming the first fighter to finish former 145-pound champion Max Holloway via strikes, knocking out the ex-champion in the third round of their UFC 308 meeting in October 2024.

When Topuria decided to move to lightweight and give up his featherweight title, he vowed to sit until he got a 155-pound title shot. That fight takes place at UFC 317.

Topuria has a 16-0 record with eight of those wins coming under the UFC banner.

Charles Oliveira (35-10-0-1) has been fighting with the UFC since 2010. He won the vacant lightweight title with his win over Chandler and defended the title once, beating Dustin Poirier. He was booked to face Justin Gaethje in his second title defense, but Oliveira missed weight for that fight, which he won by submission, losing the title on the scale.

Oliveira had a chance to regain the belt in October 2022, but Islam Makhachev submitted him and claimed the vacant belt. Since that loss, Oliveira is 1-1, beating Beneil Dariush by TKO in June 2023 and losing to Arman Tsarukyan via split decision in April of this year.

Oliveira is coming off a November 2024 decision win over Michael Chandler.

Oliveira is the No. 2 fighter in the official UFC lightweight rankings.

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UFC 317 Co-Main Event: Alexandre Pantoja Vs. Kai Kara-France

Alexandre Pantoja (29-5) is on a seven-fight winning streak heading into UFC 317. The 35-year-old Brazilian made his UFC debut in July 2017 with a split-decision win over Eric Shelton. Pantoja’s career had its ups and downs over the next three years, where he went 5-3, but he has not lost since he dropped a decision to Askar Askarov in July 2020.

Pantoja won the UFC flyweight title in July 2023 on the heels of two “Performance of the Night” submission wins. Pantoja secured the 125-pound title with a split decision win over Brandon Moreno. Since that victory, Pantoja has defended his three times, beating Brandon Royval in December 2023 and Steve Erceg in May 2024. Both fights ended in decision victories. Pantoja picked up his 19th career finish in his third title defense, submitting Kai Asakura at UFC 310 in December 2024.

Kai Kara-France (25-11-0-1) was 17-7-0-1 when he got the call from the UFC in 2019. In his first fight with the promotion, the New Zealander faced a short-notice opponent in Elias Garcia. The two won “Fight of the Night” honors for their efforts, with Kara-France picking up the decision win.

Kara-France followed that victory with two more wins on the judge’s scorecards. Then, in December 2019, he faced future champion Brandon Moreno on the early prelims of the UFC 245 pay-per-view card. Moreno won that bout by decision.

Kara-France went 1-1 in his next two outings. He then tore off three straight wins between March 2021 and March 2022 and found himself as the No. 2 ranked fighter in the division. In his next outing, he faced Moreno, who was ranked No. 1, in the co-main event of UFC 277. At stake was the interim UFC flyweight title. Moreno won that contest by TKO in the third round.

Kara-France followed that setback with a split-decision loss to Amir Albazi in June 2023.

Kara-France was booked to face Manel Kape in September 2023, but a concussion during training camp prevented Kara-France from competing on that card, UFC 293. The 32-year-old would not return to action until August 2024, where he earned a first-round TKO win, and a “Performance of the Night” bonus against Steve Erceg.

Kara-France enters UFC 317 as the No. 4 fighter in the official UFC flyweight rankings.

UFC 317 Fight Card: Beneil Dariush Vs. Renato Moicano

Beneil Dariush (22-6-1) joined the UFC in January 2014. At the time, Dariush sported a 6-0 record with five stoppage wins. In his promotional debut, Dariush scored a first-round submission win over Charlie Brenneman. Three months later Dariush tasted defeat for the first time, suffering a knockout loss to Ramsey Nijem.

Dariush bounced back from that loss with five wins in a row, besting the likes of Daron Cruickshank (submission), Jim Miller (decision) and Michael Johnson (decision). A submission loss to Michael Chiesa ended that winning streak in April 2016.

Wins over James Vick (knockout) and Rashid Magomedov put Dariush’s record at 14-2, but a rough patch between March 2017 and March 2018 left Dariush at 14-4-1 as he lost to Edson Barboza (knockout), fought to a draw with Evan Dunham and was knocked out by Alexander Hernandez.

Dariush rebounded in a big way from that winless run, picking up eight straight victories between November 2018 and October 2022. The most significant win during Dariush’s impressive run was his UFC 280 decision win over Mateusz Gamrot. Following that victory, Dariush found himself as the No. 4 ranked fighter in the official UFC rankings and matched up against former UFC 155-pound champion Charles Oliveira at UFC 289. Oliveira entered the contest as the No. 1 ranked fighter in the promotion’s lightweight division.

Oliveira won the fight via TKO at 4:10 of the first round, ending Dariush’s winning streak. A December 2023 knockout loss to Arman Tsarukyan put Dariush on the first losing skid of his career. He has not competed since the loss to Tsarukyan.

The 36-year-old Dariush looks to get back in the win column at UFC 317.

Renato Moicano (20-6-1) was riding the first four-fight winning streak of his UFC career when he stepped in to face Makhachev at UFC 311. The 36-year-old opened his run with the promotion at 3-0 record between 2014 and 2017. Since then, Moicano has been up and down. He followed that by going 5-5 over his next 10 outings before beginning his current unbeaten streak in 2022.

Moicano is 7-1 dating back to June 2021. His only loss prior to his UFC 311 setback to Makhachev was a March 2022 unanimous decision defeat to former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos in a 160-pound catchweight battle.

In April 2024, Moicano picked up his first knockout as a member of the UFC, decking Jalin Turner on the early prelims of the UFC 300 fight card.

Then, in September 2024, the UFC tapped Moicano for the first main event of his UFC career against Benoît Saint Denis. That fight ended after the second round after Moicano left Saint Denis’ face bloody and swollen. The damage Moicano put on his opponent forced the doctor to wave off the fight as Saint Denis’ right eye was nearly swollen shut.

Moicano enters UFC 317 as the No. 10 fighter in the UFC’s 155-pound weight class.

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UFC 317 Fight Card: Brandon Royval Vs. Joshua Van

Brandon Royval (17-7) joined the UFC in 2020 with a 10-4 record. At the time, Royval was coming off a November 2019 submission win over Nate Williams, earning him the LFA flyweight title.

Royval did not get an easy matchup in his first UFC bout, as he was booked against former UFC flyweight title challenger Tim Elliott in a slight upset. The matchup won “Fight of the Night” honors.

Royval followed that win with another stoppage in another “Fight of the Night” bonus-winning scrap, submitting the favored Kai Kara-France in the second round of their September 2020 matchup.

Royval ended 2020 with a TKO loss to Brandon Moreno and began 2021 with a submission setback to Alexandre Pantoja. Both those men would go on to hold the UFC flyweight title.

Bouncing back from those losses, Royval went on a three-fight winning streak, picking up another two performance-based bonuses. Then, in December 2023, he got a chance to avenge his submission loss to Pantoja in a matchup for Pantoja’s title. That bout took place at UFC 296, and although Royval went the five-round distance, he was on the wrong end of a unanimous decision.

Royval returned in the win column in February 2024 with a split decision triumph over Moreno in another five-round scrap. In October, Royval defeated the rising Tatsuro Taira in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card, beating the 25-year-old by split decision.

The 32-year-old Royval has four knockout wins, nine submissions, and four decisions. Royval’s losses have come by knockout (one), submission (one), and decision (five).

Joshua Van (14-2) won the vacant Fury FC flyweight title in his eighth pro bout, submitting Cleveland McLean in the second round of that matchup. Not long after that, Van was booked to face Kevin Borjas on a Dana White’s Contender Series Card, but the UFC plucked him from that event to face Zhalgas Zhumagulov in June 2024. Van won that contest by split decision.

Van followed that victory with wins over Kevin Borjas and Felipe Burns. In July 2024, the UFC booked Van against the more experienced Charles Johnson. While Van had success in the first two rounds, he wilted under Johnson’s pressure early in the third stanza. Johnson won the bout via knockout.

Since that loss, Van has gone 4-0 with three decisions and in his most recent trip to the Octagon, a knockout.

Van has looked better in each of his UFC fights and he seems ready to face high-level competition, but the No. 1 ranked contender? No one should question Van for accepting the opportunity to face Royval, but it could be too much too soon for the 23-year-old.

Van has seven knockout wins, two submissions and five decisions. His losses have come by knockout and submission.

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UFC 317 Fight Card: Payton Talbott Vs. Felipe Lima

Payton Talbott (9-1) joined the UFC in August 2023 when UFC CEO Dana White awarded him a deal for his decision win over Reyes Cortez Jr. on a Dana White’s Contender Series card. With his win that night at the UFC Apex, Talbott moved to 6-0. At the time, White said, “Payton broke the record for significant strikes tonight, I think it was 145, in that ball park, I don’t have the official number (145 of 282).

“This kid is an absolute predator. He keeps moving forward. He seems unfazed by by everything that happened. He plays the mental game. He’s talking to his opponent… Payton hit him (Cortez) with everything tonight. Big shots, combinations, leg kicks, head kicks, you name it. He’s only 24 years old.

“If this kid can keep his head together, I can’t wait to see him at 27”

Talbott shined in his first three UFC bouts, picking up stoppage wins over Nick Aguirre (submission), Cameron Saaiman (TKO), and Yanis Ghemmour (KO).

In his third outing with the promotion, the UFC decided to give Talbott a test, matching him up against a veteran competitor in Raoni Barcelos.

Barcelos was a +675 betting underdog to Talbott, who was listed at -1050, at UFC 311. Barcelos picked up eight takedowns and nearly 10 minutes of control time and added two submission attempts during the matchup. Sure, Talbott had the better striking, but he had no answer for Barcelos’s focus on getting the fight to the mat.

Talbott appears to be skilled and coachable. At UFC 317, he gets the opportunity to show how he has improved his overall MMA game.

Talbott does not turn 27 until September 9.

Felipe Lima (14-1) joined the UFC in June 2024 as a late replacement for the injured Melsik Baghdasaryan against Muhammad Naimov. Lima, a former Oktagon MMA bantamweight champ, was training for a defense of that title when he accepted the call from the UFC to compete at 145. Lima ended Naimov’s six-fight winning streak via submission on that night, earning a “Performance of the Night” bonus in the process.

Lima followed that with a December 2024 decision win over Miles Johns on the UFC Tampa card.

Lima lost his first professional fight in 2015, but the 27-year-old is undefeated since then with 14 consecutive wins.

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