Full Cards Revealed For Fight Island Events, 47 Bouts To Be Held In Two Week Span
The UFC will debut on Fight Island next month on July 11 with UFC 251, which kicks off a four pack of events in a two week span that ends with UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till on July 25.
UFC President Dana White, during an interview with Megan Olivi, revealed not only the main events for all four shows, but the full cards for each show.
Everything kicks off with UFC 251 on July 11:
Main Card (10pm EST., ESPN+ Pay-Per-View)
Kamaru Usman (c) vs. Gilbert Burns for the UFC Welterweight Title
Alexander Volkanovski (c) vs. Max Holloway for the UFC Featherweight Title
Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Title
Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
Paige VanZant vs. Amanda Ribas
Preliminary Card (6:15pm EST., ESPN)
Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
Muslim Salikhov vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry
Roman Bogatov vs. Leonardo Santos
Alexander Romanov vs. Marcin Tybura
Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
Vanessa Melo vs. Karol Rosa
Martin Day vs. Davey Grant
That is followed by UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige on July 15:
Main Card (10pm EST.) – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Calvin Kattar vs. Dan Ige
Frankie Edgar vs. Pedro Munhoz
Carla Esparza vs. Marina Rodriguez
Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Mounir Lazzez
Chris Fishgold vs. Jared Gordon
Preliminary Card (7pm EST.) – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Modestas Bukauskas vs. Vinicius Moreira
Molly McCann vs. Taila Santos
Lerone Murphy vs. Ricardo Ramos
John Phillips vs. Dusko Todorovic
Ryan Benoit vs. Tim Elliott
Diana Belbita vs. Liana Jojua
Three days later will be UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez on July 18, which will feature:
Main Card (9pm EST.) – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez for the vacant UFC Flyweight Title
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Jack Hermansson
Marc Diakiese vs. Rafael Fiziev
Luana Carolina vs. Ariane Lipski
Askar Askarov vs. Alexandre Pantoja
Preliminary Card (6pm EST.) – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Roman Dolidze vs. Khadis Ibragimov
Grant Dawson vs. Nad Narimani
Joel Alvarez vs. Joe Duffy
Montel Jackson vs. Brett Johns
Aleksander Doskalchuk vs. Tagir Ulanbekov
Davi Ramos vs. Arman Tsarukyan
Carlos Felipe vs. Serghei Spivac
Concluding the Fight Island quadrilogy will be UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till on July 25, which will feature:
Main Card – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till
Mauricio Rua vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta
Fabricio Werdum vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Nicolas Dalby vs. Danny Roberts
Preliminary Card – Broadcast Plans To Be Announced
Tom Aspinall vs. Jake Collier
Raphael Pessoa vs. Justin Tafa
Movsar Evloev vs. Mike Grundy
Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad
Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Nathaniel Wood
Ramazan Emeev vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov
