First up, it’s UFC 251 on July 11, which features a trio of title fights.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Champ Kamaru Usman vs. Gilbert Burns – for welterweight title Champ Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway – for featherweight title Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo – for vacant bantamweight title Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka Muslim Salikhov vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos Makwan Amirkhani vs. Danny Henry Roman Bogatov vs. Leonardo Santos
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 6:15 p.m. ET)
Alexander Romanov vs. Marcin Tybura Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov Vanessa Melo vs. Karol Rosa Martin Day vs. Davey Grant
The promotion then returns on July 15 with an event headlined by featherweight contenders Calvin Kattar (21-4 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Dan Ige (14-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC).
The complete lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (10 p.m. ET)
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 (7 p.m. ET)
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, on July 18, the promotion hosts its third card in eight days, when top flyweight contenders Deiveson Figueiredo (18-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and Joseph Benavidez (28-6 MMA, 15-4 UFC) meet for a second time with the vacant UFC flyweight title on the line.
The full card includes:
MAIN CARD (9 p.m. ET)
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez – for vacant flyweight title Kelvin Gastelum vs. Jack Hermansson Marc Diakiese vs. Rafael Fiziev Luana Carolina vs. Ariane Lipski Askar Askarov vs. Alexandre Pantoja
PRELIMINARY CARD (6 p.m. ET)
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
Finally, the UFC’s run in Abu Dhabi ends on July 25 with a much-anticipated middleweight contest between former champion Robert Whittaker (20-5 MMA, 11-3 UFC) and former welterweight title challenger Darren Till (18-2-1 MMA, 6-2-1 UFC).
That night’s full lineup includes:
MAIN CARD
Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Mauricio Rua Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta Alexander Gustafsson vs. Fabricio Werdum Nicolas Dalby vs. Danny Roberts
PRELIMINARY CARD
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