Vallejos, 24, had a stupendous first calendar year in the UFC, so much so that he earned MMA Junkie's 2025 Breakthrough Fighter of the Year award. He debuted with a knockout of Seung Woo Choi, defeated Danny Silva by unanimous decision, and then turned in a spectacular spinning backfist knockout of promotion-ranked Giga Chikadze.

The promotion announced on Friday that Vallejos is set to face Josh Emmett in the main event of UFC Vegas 114, which takes place March 14 at the UFC’s Meta APEX in Las Vegas. Fierce featherweights headline #UFCVegas114 💪 @JoshEmmettUFC vs @ElChinoVallejos is your main event! [ SAT March 14 | LIVE on @ParamountPlus ] pic.twitter.com/xKO4FhyDmQ

UFC's Paramount+ era begins on Jan. 24. UFC 324 takes over Las Vegas with a headline-grabbing main event: Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett for the interim lightweight title. It all goes down from the T-Mobile Arena as the first numbered event of 2026.

Last UFC fight: TKO loss vs. Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 275 on June 11, 2022 Next fight: Jan. 17 vs. Daniel Ligocki at Oktagon 82 Last MMA fight: Unanimous decision loss vs. Kamil Oniszczuk at Oktagon 74 on Aug. 9, 2025

While Charles Oliveira was rising the ranks in the UFC featherweight division in the early years of his UFC career, Max Holloway scored a victory over the Brazilian in 2015 due to a neck injury. A decade later,

Hello everyone, and welcome back as we keep you up to date on dates for a lot of these fighters, as well as my usual antics. With UFC 324 next week on January 24th, we just had our first fight drop out.

CBS Sports' Kate Scott will join UFC's official broadcast team for UFC 324, Paramount announced on Thursday. Scott will host the broadcast desk alongside former UFC champions Michael Bisping, Dominick Cruz and Chris Weidman on Jan. 24.

Before his breakout second season, Seahawks tight end AJ Barner trained with UFC legend Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell. That work helped him become, in Barner's words, "unbreakable."

A UFC call feels inevitable to Minev, who has continued to rack up victory after victory, most recently under the Fury FC banner. Appropriately nicknamed "Headhunter," he has five finishes in six outings, with the lone decision his most recent outing in July.

It looks like fans won’t have to wait too much longer to see former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Magomed Ankalaev get back into action.