What’s next in the Octagon: UFC fight cards for May 2025

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 1, 2025, 15:30 IST

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MMA enthusiasts are in for a thrilling May 2025 with a series of UFC events. UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo kicks off the month, followed by the highly anticipated UFC 315 featuring title fights like Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena. The month concludes with UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales, promising a dynamic shift in upcoming UFC fixtures.

What’s next in the Octagon: UFC fight cards for May 2025

UFC 315. Image via UFC/X

April 2025 was one of the most exciting months for MMA fans, with fighters like Paddy Pimblett, Michael Chandler, Jean Silva, Alexander Volkanovski, Bryce Mitchell, Josh Emmett, Lerone Murphy, Diego Lopes, and others all putting in their best to establish their legitimacy for the ultimate title run in their respective weight categories. While not each one of them was successful owing to unexpected results and outcomes, the fighters have not given up and are gearing up for their respective next targets. Meanwhile, the fans are in for a treat with another set of Octagon events lined up for May 2025. Let us take a look at the upcoming fight cards scheduled for the month

UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo

Scheduled for May 3, 2025, the first event of the month is the UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo. The event will be headlined by the bantamweight bout between Cory Sandhagen and Deiveson Figueiredo. The rest of the cards that will follow are -

Middleweight bout - Reinier de Ridder vs. Bo Nickal
Welterweight bout - Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Daniel Rodriguez
Bantamweight bout - Montel Jackson vs. Daniel Marcos
Bantamweight bout - Cameron Smotherman vs. Serhiy Sidey
Lightweight bout - Jeremy Stephens vs. Mason Jones

Prelims

Women’s bantamweight bout - Yana Santos vs. Miesha Tate
Middleweight bout - Ryan Loder vs. Azamat Bekoev
Women’s strawweight bout - Marina Rodriguez vs. Gillian Robertson
Bantamweight bout - Gaston Bolaños vs. Quang Le
Heavyweight bout - Thomas Petersen vs. Don'Tale Mayes
Women’s flyweight bout - Juliana Miller vs. Ivana Petrovic

UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena

UFC 315 is one of the most anticipated events of the UFC owing to the fact that the event will feature two title fights within the main card bouts. The bouts have been scheduled for May 10, 2025.
Main-card

Welterweight title bout - Belal Muhammad vs. Jack Della Maddalena
Women’s flyweight title bout - Valentina Shevchenko vs. Manon Fiorot
Bantamweight bout - José Aldo vs. Aiemann Zahabi
Women’s flyweight bout - Alexa Grasso vs. Natalia Silva
Lightweight bout - Benoît Saint Denis vs. Joel Álvarez

Prelims

Welterweight bout - Mike Malott vs. Charles Radtke
Women’s flyweight bout - Jessica Andrade vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius
Light heavyweight bout - Modestas Bukauskas vs. Ion Cutelaba
Light heavyweight bout - Navajo Stirling vs. Ivan Erslan

Early Prelims

Middleweight bout - Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Bruno Silva
Featherweight bout - JeongYeong Lee vs. Daniel Santos
Bantamweight bout - Brad Katona vs. Bekzat Almakhan

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales

Following the events of UFC 315, the month of May will be wrapped up by the UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales, scheduled for May 17, 2025. The cards fixed for the event are as follows -
Main card

Welterweight bout - Gilbert Burns vs. Michael Morales
Light heavyweight bout - Paul Craig vs. Rodolfo Bellato
Lightweight bout - Sodiq Yusuff vs. Mairon Santos
Middleweight bout - Dustin Stoltzfus vs. Nursulton Ruziboev
Featherweight bout - Julian Erosa vs. Melquizael Costa
Lightweight bout - Gabe Green vs. Matheus Camilo

Prelims

Lightweight bout - Jared Gordon vs. Thiago Moisés
Women's bantamweight bout - Luana Santos vs. Tainara Lisboa
Women’s strawweight bout - Elise Reed vs. Denise Gomes
Flyweight bout - Park Hyun-sung vs. Carlos Hernandez
Women’s strawweight bout - Luana Pinheiro vs. Tecia Pennington

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May 2025 is lined up with some of the most interesting fights that would change the dynamics of UFC’s upcoming fixtures. Fans even believe that the UFC 315 is one of the major reasons for the cards of UFC 317 still being open.

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