What You Need To Know About The UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card

Tonight, Saturday, March 15, the UFC is at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas for the UFC Vegas 104 fight card. The main event of the UFC Fight Night is a middleweight rematch. In that scrap, Marvin Vettori and Roman Dolidze run back their 2023 meeting, a three-round affair that Vettori won via unanimous decision. In the UFC Vegas 104 co-main event, Chidi Njokuani and Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos look to break into the welterweight rankings with a victory. Below is the pertinent information you need to know about tonight’s UFC Vegas 104 fight card.

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card – Marvin Vettori Vs. Roman Dolidze 2

Marvin Vettori (19-7-1) returns to the UFC Octagon for the first time since he dropped a unanimous decision to Jared Cannonier in June 2023. That fight followed his March 2023 decision win over Roman Dolidze. An injury knocked Vettori out of a scheduled April 2024 matchup against Brendan Allen. Vettori enters UFC Vegas 104 as the No. 8 ranked fighter in the official UFC middleweight rankings.

Vettori opened his UFC career in 2016. He went 2-2-1 in his first five fights with the promotion. Following a split decision loss to future UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya in April 2018, Vettori put together a five-fight unbeaten streak. That run earned him a rematch against Adesanya, who by then held the UFC’s 185-pound belt. Adesanya won that contest via decision.

Vettori is 2-2 since his loss to Adesanya.

Roman Dolidze (14-3) enters UFC Vegas 104 as the No. 11 UFC middleweight.Dolidze joined the promotion in July 2020 going 2-1 in his first three outings with the UFC. Dolidze followed a March 2021 decision loss to Trevin Giles with a four-fight winning streak. That run ended with his loss to Vettori. A majority decision setback to Nassourdine Imavov followed.

Dolidze followed that lackluster performance with a decision win over Anthony Smith at UFC 303. In his most recent trip to the cage, Dolidze scored a TKO win over Kevin Holland in a bout where Holland could not continue because of broken ribs.

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Full Fight Card

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Main Card

Marvin Vettori vs. Roman Dolidze
Chidi Njokuani vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Alexander Hernandez vs. Kurt Holobaugh
Da’Mon Blackshear vs. Cody Gibson
Diyar Nurgozhay vs. Brendson Ribeiro
Seungwoo Choi vs. Kevin Vallejos

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Preliminary Card

Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Ryan Spann
Suyoung You vs. AJ Cunningham
Carlos Vera vs. Josias Musasa
Stephanie Luciano vs. Sam Hughes
Daniel Barez vs. André Lima
Josiane Nunes vs. Priscila Cachoeira
Yuneisy Duben vs. Carli Judice

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card Date

Saturday, March 15, 2025

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card Location

UFC Apex in Las Vegas, NV

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card How to Watch Or Stream

Full fight card streams on ESPN+

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card Time

Prelims: 4:00 p.m. ET

Main Card: 7:00 p.m. ET

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Main Event Preview: Vettori Vs. Dolidze 1

The first matchup between these two middleweights was a fairly evenly matched striking battle. The difference in the fight came down to activity and output. Vettori attempted 218 significant strikes and landed 106 for a success rate of 48 percent. Meanwhile, Dolidze threw 192 significant strikes and connected 71 times for a landing rate of 36 percent. Vettori might not have thrown with his opponent’s power, but he used effective combinations, while Dolidze relied more on single power strikes.

Vettori also did a good job mixing up his techniques and targets, landing 38 leg strikes, eight body strikes, and 60 head strikes. Dolidze spent most of the fight headhunting, with 52 of his significant strikes landing upstairs on Vettori.

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Main Event: Marvin Vettori On Roman Dolidze

“I smashed my shoulder. It popped out and destroyed my rotator cuff, my labrum, and even my bicep,” Vettori said (Via MMA Mania). “It was a heavy surgery, you know. A lot of tendons were torn and messed up. Tendons take a while to heal.”

“It’s good to be back,” Vettori added. “After my last fight, I thought I needed some time off, so I switched gyms [from Xtreme Couture] and joined American Top Team. I started training for another fight, but then I got injured…this injury took me basically a year. I thought I could recover in three months with P.T. [physical therapy], but I actually made it worse and ended up needing surgery in June. I got injured [last] March, and I’m finally coming back now.”

UFC Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Main Event: Roman Dolidze On Marvin Vettori

“He hasn’t fought in a long time,” Dolidze said (via MMA Junkie). “Everybody says maybe it’s bad for him, he hasn’t fought in so long. But I never think about the fights from this point of view. I just understand that we are all changing, evolving. Maybe he has time to change something in his game.

“But anyway, I still think this fight can be the same, how he was working and what he was doing with me. Because I have power. He knows. Everybody knows I’m powerful. Everybody knows my ground game and grappling. That’s why it’s always hard to find keys with me. But I still think that I need to be more calm and control my anger, and that’s the key to win this fight.”

UFC Vegas 104 Fight Card: Odds, Lines, Prop Bets, Predictions And Picks

UF Tonight: UFC Vegas 104 Main Event: Vettori Vs. Dolidze 2 Predictions And Picks

Roman Dolidze is the better all-around fighter in this contest. The problem with Dolidze is that he doesn’t use his full skill set inside the Octagon. Instead of employing his grappling skills, he seems most interested in getting in slugfests. While fans might not mind that style, Dolidze employs that approach to the detriment of his career.

With that being said, Dolidze has been far more active than Vettori, and he has shown the ability to pick up his output and accuracy while mixing up his targets and techniques. With that, the betting pick is that Dolidze will beat Vettori at UFC Vegas 104 via decision.

Stay tuned for more coverage for tonight’s UFC Vegas 104 fight card: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2.