UFC Fight Card Schedule For February 2025

With January behind us, it’s time to look at the UFC schedule for February 2025. The premier MMA promotion jumps right into action on Saturday, February 1 and has events scheduled for each weekend of the month.

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas Saudi Arabia

The first fight card on the 2025 UFC schedule, UFC Saudi Arabia takes place on Saturday, February 1 from the anb Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The main event of the card is a middleweight matchup between former UFC champion Israel Adesanya and Nassourine Imavov.

Israel Adesanya (24-4) was a perfect 11-0 when he joined the UFC in 2018. The then 28-year-old had held titles with Hex Fight Series and AFC before joining the UFC. He had also fought twice for the Glory Kickboxing Middleweight crown before focusing on MMA.

Adesanya’s first fight was a “Performance of the Night” bonus-winning knockout of Rob Wilkinson in a bloody battle. After the win, Adesanya delivered a memorable post-fight interview with UFC commentator Jon Anik.

Decision wins over Marvin Vettori and Brad Tavares put Adesanya in the top 10 in the division. A first-round TKO over Derek Brunson then launched him to No. 6. A decision over a fading former UFC middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva followed.

That fight against Silva, which took place at UFC 234 in February 2019, was the last time Adesanya would compete in a non-title fight with the UFC.

In his next outing, Adesanya captured the interim UFC middleweight crown with a gut-check decision win over Kelvin Gastelum. Adesanya unified the titles in October 2019 with a knockout win over Robert Whittaker.

Title defense wins over Yoel Romero and Paulo Costa followed. Adesanya, looking to become a double UFC champ, moved to light heavyweight for his next fight against then UFC 205-pound titleholder Jan Blachowicz. Blachowicz handed Adesanya his first defeat, beating him by decision at UFC 259.

The middleweight champ bounced back from that setback with title defenses against Vettori, Whittaker. and Jared Cannonier.

A grudge match was next on Adesanya’s schedule as he faced the man who had defeated him twice under the Glory Banner, Alex Pereira, at UFC 281. Adesanya entered the fifth and final round of that contest ahead on the scorecards, only to get knocked out at 2:01 of that round.

Adesanya got revenge in April 2023 at UFC 287 when he knocked out Pereira in the second round.

In his next outing, at UFC 293, Adesanya dropped the belt to Strickland.

Adesanya is currently riding a two-fight losing skid after a UFC 305 submission loss to Dricus du Plessis in a title fight.

Adesanya seems to be relaxed and lose heading into Saturday’s fight card and with this not being a UFC title fight, the former champ feels less pressure ahead of this contest.

Nassourdine Imavov (15-4-0-1) was 8-2 when he first fought for the UFC. That bout came in October 2020, and he won a decision over Jordan Williams. Imavov went 3-1 in his next four UFC outings. In January 2023, Imavov was booked to face Kelvin Gastelum, but that fight fell apart when Gastelum withdrew. Sean Strickland stepped in on short notice to keep the fight, which was to be the main event, on the card. The only stipulation was that the meeting was to take place at light heavyweight. Strickland picked up a unanimous decision win in that scrap.

Imavov has fought four times since then. In June 2023 he faced Strickland’s teammate Chris Curtis at UFC 289, but that fight ended in a no contest when a clash of heads left Curtis unable to continue. Then, in February of this year, Imavov defeated Roman Dolidze by majority decision in a main event scrap on a UFC Fight Night card.

In June 2024, the 29-year-old scored a TKO win over former UFC middleweight title challenger Jared Cannonier in the main event of a June Fight Night card in Louisville.

Imavov took the best that Jared Cannonier had to offer in the first three rounds of their UFC Louisville main event and was in the process of turning the tables on the former UFC middleweight title challenger when referee Jason Herzog waved off the fight in the fourth stanza and awarded the victory to Imavov.

Cannonier’s game plan was a good one, but his approach of using leg kicks to slow his opponent and pick up control time against the cage didn’t work. Yes, the leg kicks scored for Cannonier, but they didn’t deter Imavov, who was mounting a comeback after falling behind 29-29 on two scorecards heading into the fourth round.

Before the fight was waved off, Imavov had honed in on Cannonier’s range and timing. He landed 60 percent of his significant strikes in the second round, 65 percent in the third, and 73 percent in the fourth before Herzog stopped the fight.

After his win, Imavov called for a matchup against former UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland. He did not get his wish. Instead, Imavov faced Brendan Allen in the co-main event of a UFC Fight Night event in Paris. Imavov won that contest via unanimous decision.

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas Saudi Arabia Full Fight Card

UFC Saudi Arabia Main Card

Israel Adesanya vs. Nassourdine Imavov

Shara Magomedov vs. Michael Page

Sergei Pavlovich vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Said Nurmagomedov vs. Vinicius Oliveira

Fares Ziam vs. Mike Davis

UFC Saudi Arabia Preliminary Card

Muhammad Naimov vs. Kaan Ofli

Shamil Gaziev vs. Thomas Peterson

Terrance McKinney vs. Damir Hadžović

Jasmine Jasudavicius vs. Mayra Bueno Silva

Bogdan Grad vs. Lucas Alexander

Hamdy Abdelwahab vs. Jamal Pogues

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC 312

The second pay-per-view on the 2025 UFC schedule takes place on Saturday, February 8. That fight card, UFC 312, is headlined by a middleweight title fight rematch between current champ Dricus du Plessis and the man he took the title from in January 2024, Sean Strickland. In the evening’s co-main event, UFC women’s strawweight titleholder Zhang Weili faces Tatiana Suarez

UFC 312 Main Event: Du Plessis Vs. Strickland 2

Du Plessis sports a 22-2 record heading into UFC 312. He is unbeaten in his past 10 fights and has a perfect 8-0 record in the UFC, with six finishes and four fight-night bonus awards. He joined the UFC in October 2020.

Strickland, who has been with the UFC since March 2014 has a career record of 29-6. He is 16-6 in the UFC with four finishes and four fight-night bonus awards.

Du Plessis and Strickland shared “Fight of the Night” honors for their first meeting, which took place at UFC 297 in January 2024.

Since then, Du Plessis is 1-0 with an August 2024 submission win over former UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya. Strickland has also fought once since losing his title to Du Plessis, beating Paulo Costa by split decision in June.

UFC 312 Co-Main Event: Zhang Weili vs. Tatiana Suarez

Zhang Weili (25-3) is in her second stint with the UFC’s 115-pound title. The 34-year-old first captured the belt in August 2019 in her fourth fight with the UFC. Zhang defeated Jessica Andrade via TKO at the 0:42 mark of the first round of their UFC Fight Night bout in China to capture the belt. Zhang’s first defense of her crown came in March 2020, when she scored a split decision over former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Zhang’s title reign ended in April 2021 when Rose Namajunas scored a highlight-reel head kick knockout win over the champ 78 seconds into their UFC 261 scrap. Namajunas held onto the belt in the rematch in November 2021, defeating Zhang via split decision.

Zhang bounced back from those back-to-back defeats in June 2022 when she once again beat Jedrzejczyk, this time scoring a knockout victory.

In November 2022, Zhang found herself once again fighting for the belt. She reclaimed UFC gold with a submission win over Carla Esparza.

Zhang has since defended her title twice, beating Amanda Lemos via decision in August 2023, and most recently defeating Yan Xiaonan via decision at UFC 300.

Tatiana Suarez (10-0) is the No. 1 fighter in the official UFC strawweight rankings. The 33-year-old has been with the UFC since July 2016 when she won season 23 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” defeating Amanda Cooper via submission. The win was Suarez’s fourth professional MMA bout.

An accomplished wrestler, Suarez’s UFC career has been plagued by injuries. Those injuries have limited Suarez to seven UFC outings. She went from June 2019 to February 2023 without a fight.

Suarez returned to action at in late February 2023, scoring a submission win over Montana De La Rosa. She followed that with a August 2023 submission win over former champ Jessica Andrade in August 2023.

The injury bug visited Suarez again in December 2023 when she was booked to face Amanda Lemos at UFC 298.

Suarez has been strategic in her plans to return since her first long layoff. Something she discussed with MMA Fighting.

“The good thing is that there’s nothing actually anatomically wrong with my knee,” Suarez said. “So that’s a good thing. But I just didn’t want to go ahead and try to push through something that wasn’t doing what it [was supposed to], because my knee was really inflamed and I didn’t want to try to grapple through something and then actually hurt my knee badly. Because it is the knee that I had surgery on, so I just didn’t want to go ahead and mess with that, especially because my actual injury was so severe. I mean, I tore every ligament in my knee.

“I have cadavers, they’re not my actual ligaments, so I didn’t want to do something kind of similar to the Nina Ansaroff thing where I pushed through the injury, I went and fought, and then it got worse in the fight, and then I had to be out for a couple years. I just didn’t want that to happen to me again. I learned my lesson the first time and I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that.’ But if it was something where I could train and just go hard, I would have just fought with it. But it just wasn’t working out for me. We tried everything.”

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC 312 Full Fight Card

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC 312 PPV Main Card

Dricus du Plessis vs. Sean Strickland

Zhang Weili vs. Tatiana Suarez

Justin Tafa vs. Tallison Teixeira

Jimmy Crute vs. Rodolfo Bellato

Jake Matthews vs. Francisco Prado

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC 312 Preliminary Card

Jack Jenkins vs. Gabriel Santos

Tom Nolan vs. Viacheslav Borshchev

Wang Cong vs. Bruna Brasil

Colby Thicknesse vs. Aleksandre Topuria

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC 312 Early Preliminary Card

Jonathan Micallef vs. Kevin Jousset

Rong Zhu vs. Kody Steele

Quillan Salkilld vs. Anshul Jubli

Park Hyun-sung vs. Nyamjargal Tumendemberel

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas 102

On Saturday, February 15 the UFC returns to the UFC Apex for the UFC Vegas 102 fight card. That event is headlined by a middleweight matchup between Jared Cannonier and Gregory Rodrigues. The event streams on ESPN+.

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas 102 Full Fight Card

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas 102 Main Card

Jared Cannonier vs. Gregory Rodrigues

Calvin Kattar vs. Youssef Zalal

Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Dylan Budka

Ismael Bonfim vs. Nazim Sadykhov

Rodolfo Vieira vs. Andre Petroski

Connor Matthews vs. Jose Delgado

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Vegas 102 Preliminary Card

Angela Hill vs. Ketlen Souza

Jared Gordon vs. Kauê Fernandes

Rafael Estevam vs. Jesús Santos Aguilar

Vince Morales vs. Elijah Smith

Valter Walker vs. Don’Tale Mayes

Julia Avila vs. Jacqueline Cavalcanti

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Seattle

Former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo returns to action for the first time since his February 2024 decision loss to current UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili when he headlines the upcoming UFC Seattle card against Song Yadong. Yadong is also coming off a loss, falling to former UFC 135-pound champ Petr Yan in March 2024. The UFC Fight Night card is the UFC’s first visit to Seattle since July 2013. Neither Cejudo nor Song were on the UFC roster at the time of that fight card.

UFC Seattle takes place on Saturday, February 22 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The UFC Fight Night card begins at 6:00 p.m ET with the preliminary card. The main card starts at 9:00 p.m. ET. The entire UFC Seattle fight card streams on ESPN+.

UFC Schedule February 2025: UFC Seattle Full Fight Card

Henry Cejudo vs. Song Yadong

Rob Font vs. Dominick Cruz

Curtis Blaydes vs. Rizvan Kuniev

Edson Barboza vs. Steve Garcia

Jean Silva vs. Melsik Baghdasaryan

Ion Cuțelaba vs. Ibo Aslan

Brendan Allen vs. Anthony Hernandez

Ketlen Vieira vs. Macy Chiasson

Modestas Bukauskas vs. Raffael Cerqueira

*Full fight card not announced as of this writing

*All fight cards are subject to change

We will have more news and stories on the UFC Schedule for February 2025 throughout the month.