When, Where And Who Is Fighting In The Next UFC Event

If you’re starving for UFC action like many MMA fans, you might be wondering when the next UFC event will happen. Unfortunately, the promotion has had its last one for 2024.

The UFC ended 2024 with a bang on December 14, with Joaquin Buckley destroying Colby Covington in the main event of UFC Tampa. The next time UFC fighters will be in action in the Octagon will be January 11, when the promotion heads back to The Apex in Las Vegas.

That card will be headlined by an important women’s strawweight rematch between No. 6 Mackenzie Dern and No. 8 Amanda Ribas. The two first met in October 2019, with Ribas winning by unanimous decision.

If Dern wins this time, she’ll find herself on a two-fight win streak and poised to draw a Top-5 opponent in her next fight. The same could be said for Ribas, as she’s likely to take Dern’s spot in the rankings with a victory.

UFC Apex Card – January 11

• Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Ribas – Strawweight
• Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Carlston Harris – Welterweight
• Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. César Almeida – Middleweight
• Chris Curtis vs. Roman Kopylov – Middleweight
• Austin Bashi vs. Christian Rodriguez – Featherweight
• Punahele Soriano vs. Uroš Medić – Welterweight
• Jose Johnson vs. Felipe Bunes – Flyweight
• Marco Túlio vs. Ihor Potieria – Middleweight
• Thiago Moisés vs. Trey Ogden – Lightweight
• Andreas Gustafsson vs. Preston Parsons – Welterweight
• Ernesta Kareckaite vs. Nicolle Caliari – Flyweight
• Magomed Gadzhiyasulov vs. Bruno Lopes – Light Heavyweight
• Viktoriia Dudakova vs. Fatima Kline – Strawweight
• Nurullo Aliev vs. Yanal Ashmouz – Lightweight

After shaking off the rust from a three-week layoff with the Apex event, the UFC will follow up the next weekend with its first pay-per-view show of 2025.

UFC 311 will emanate from the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, and it looks spectacular on paper. The event will feature two UFC championship fights. In the main event, UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev will defend his title against Arman Tsarukyan.

In the co-main event, UFC men’s bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili will defend his title against bitter rival Umar Nurmagomedov. Could we start the MMA year by crowning two new world champions?

It’s possible. This has happened in each of the last two years and three times in UFC history in January. At UFC 297, Dricus du Plessis dethroned Sean Strickland, and those two are scheduled for a rematch at UFC 312 in Sydney in February.

Also at UFC 297, Raquel Pennington defeated Mayra Bueno Silva for the vacant women’s bantamweight championship in a forgettable fight that made fans immediately miss the recently retired Amanda Nunes.

In 2023, Jamahal Hill defeated Glover Teixeira by unanimous decision to win the UFC light heavyweight championship. In the co-main event, Brandon Moreno, the interim UFC flyweight champion, unified the titles by defeating regular champion Deiveson Figueiredo.

The first time we saw a double championship coronation was in 2004 at UFC 46. Vitor Belfort defeated Randy Couture to win the light heavyweight championship, and B.J. Penn submitted Matt Hughes to claim the welterweight title.

Perhaps we’ll see history for a third year in a row.