The UFC has a packed schedule for June 2025. The month, which has a UFC fight card scheduled for each weekend, is bookended by two pay-per-view events, UFC 316 and UFC 317. Also included on the schedule are UFC Fight Night events in Atlanta, Georgia, and Baku, Azerbaijan. Perhaps most importantly for fight fans, there are no fights scheduled for the UFC Apex. Below, we look at the full UFC schedule for June 2025.
UFC Schedule June 2025: UFC 316
The next pay-per-view fight card on the UFC schedule, UFC 316, looks to be set with 12 fights. The event, which takes place at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, June 7, features two title fights at the top of the marquee.
The main event of UFC 316 finds UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili against the man he took the title from, Sean O’Malley. Meanwhile, in the fight card’s co-main event, two-time women’s bantamweight champ Julianna Pena looks to do what she could not in her first title run, make a successful defense of her crown. Pena faces former two-time PFL lightweight tournament winner Kayla Harrison.
Also appearing on the UFC 316 PPV fight card is former Bellator bantamweight champion Patchy Mix, who makes his short-notice UFC debut against Mario Bautista at 135 pounds.
UFC 316 Pay-Per-View Fight Card
Merab Dvalishvili vs. Sean O’Malley – Men’s bantamweight title fight
Julianna Peña vs. Kayla Harrison – Women’s bantamweight title fight
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Joe Pyfer – Middleweight
Mario Bautista vs. Patchy Mix – Bantamweight
Vicente Luque vs. Kevin Holland – Welterweight
UFC 316 Preliminary Fight Card
Bruno Silva vs. Joshua Van – Flyweight
Azamat Murzakanov vs. Brendson Ribeiro – Light Heavyweight
Serghei Spivac vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta – Heavyweight
Khaos Williams vs. Uroš Medić – Welterweight
UFC 316 Early Prelims Fight Card
Ariane da Silva vs. Wang Cong – Women’s Flyweight
Jeka Saragih vs. Yoo Joo-sang – Featherweight
Quillan Salkilld vs. Yanal Ashmouz – Lightweight
UFC Schedule June 2025: UFC Atlanta
On June 14, the UFC returns to Atlanta, Georgia, for the promotion’s first fight card in that state since 2019. The main event of the UFC Atlanta fight card features an important welterweight matchup between former UFC 170-pound champion Kamaru Usman and the surging Joaquin Buckley. In the evening’s co-main event, highly-ranked UFC women’s flyweight competitors Rose Namajunas and Miranda Maverick meet.
UFC Atlanta Fight Card Main Card
Kamaru Usman vs. Joaquin Buckley – Welterweight
Rose Namajunas vs. Miranda Maverick – Women’s Flyweight
Cody Garbrandt vs. Raoni Barcelos – Bantamweight
Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Cody Brundage – Middleweight
Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Andre Petroski – Middleweight
Alonzo Menifield vs. Oumar Sy – Light Heavyweight
UFC Atlanta Fight Card Preliminary Card
Paul Craig vs. Rodolfo Bellato – Light Heavyweight
Ricky Simón vs. Charles Jourdain – Bantamweight
Michael Chiesa vs. Court McGee – Welterweight
Tereza Bledá vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth – Women’s Flyweight
Cody Durden vs. Jose Ochoa – Flyweight
UFC Schedule June 2025: UFC Azerbaijan
On Saturday, June 21, the UFC makes its first visit to Baku, Azerbaijan for a UFC Fight Night that has an important light heavyweight fight at the top of the card. In that contest, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill faces recent UFC 205-pound title challenger Khalil Rountree Jr.
UFC Azerbaijan Fight Card – Main Card
Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. – Light Heavyweight
Rafael Fiziev vs. Ignacio Bahamondes – Lightweight
Muhammad Naimov vs. Bogdan Grad – Featherweight
Nazim Sadykhov vs. Nikolas Motta – Lightweight
Curtis Blaydes vs. Rizvan Kuniev – Heavyweight
UFC Azerbaijan Fight Card – Preliminary Card
Tagir Ulanbekov vs. Azat Maksum – Flyweight
Irina Alekseeva vs. Klaudia Syguła – Women’s Bantamweight
Melissa Mullins vs. Daria Zheleznyakova – Women’s Bantamweight
Hamdy Abdelwahab vs. Mohammed Usman – Heavyweight
Ismail Naurdiev vs. Park Jun-yong – Middleweight
UFC Schedule June 2025: UFC 317
Two title fights get top billing on the upcoming UFC 317 pay-per-view event. That fight card, the second of two ESPN+ streaming PPVs on the UFC schedule for June, also features at least four other bouts that will have a bearing on the UFC rankings. UFC 317 serves as the anchor event for the 2025 edition of International Fight Week.
UFC 317 Fight Card
Ilia Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira – For vacant UFC lightweight title
Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Kara-France – For Pantoja’s UFC flyweight title
Beneil Dariush vs. Renato Moicano – Lightweight
Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape – Flyweight
Paulo Costa vs. Roman Kopylov – Middleweight
Jack Hermansson vs. Gregory Rodriguez – Middleweight
Jhonata Diniz vs. Justin Tafa – Heavyweight
Viviane Araújo vs. Tracy Cortez – Women’s Flyweight
UFC 316 Main Event: Merab Dvalishvili Vs. Sean O’Malley 2
Merab Dvalishvili (19-4), a long-time training partner of former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling stepped into the spotlight of the promotion’s 135-pound division in September 2014 when he scored a unanimous decision win over then-champion Sean O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306.
The 33-year-old Dvalishvili joined the UFC in 2017 as much-hyped prospect. At the time, Dvalishvili was 7-2 and had won and defended the Ring of Combat bantamweight crown.
Dvalishvili did not have a smooth start to his UFC run, losing his first two fights. Falling to Frankie Saenz by decision, and the second, to Ricky Simon, via submission. In September 2018, things clicked in place for the Serra-Longo Fight Team product, and he has not lost since.
Heading into UFC 306, Dvalishvili was on a 10-fight winning streak. Prior to his matchup against O’Malley, Dvalishvili had defeated Marlon Moraes, Jose Aldo, Petr Yan, and Henry Cejudo. The win over O’Malley stretched his winning streak to 11 straight. Dvalishvili extended that streak to 12 when he defended his title with a unanimous decision win over the previously unbeaten Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 311.
Sean O’Malley (18-2-0-1) was 7-0 with six finishes when he got the chance to fight for a UFC contract on the first season of Dana White’s Contender Series back in 2017. O’Malley, scored a first-round knockout, and a UFC contract that night.
He went 4-0 in his first bouts with the promotion, picking up three fight-night bonus awards for his efforts, including a brutal one-punch KO win over UFC veteran Eddie Wineland at UFC 250.
The win over Wineland put O’Malley at No. 14 in the UFC bantamweight rankings and got him a fight against Marlon “Chito” Vera. Vera won that fight by TKO, handing O’Malley the only defeat on his record.
The loss to Vera knocked O’Malley out of the rankings, but he bounced back in his next fight, knocking out Thomas Almeida and earning another fight-night bonus in the process. He followed that win with a TKO win over Kris Moutinho.
Despite those back-to-back wins, O’Malley remained unranked when he next stepped into the Octagon for a December 2021 matchup against Raulian Paiva. O’Malley wrapped that fight up with a knockout at the 4:42 mark of the first round. That victory put O’Malley back in the rankings.
O’Malley’s next bout ended in a no contest, when an eye poke in the second round left Pedro Munhoz unable to continue.
Then, in October 2022, O’Malley was matched up with former UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan. He entered that contest as the +230 underdog to the -275 ex-champ. The pair went the three-round distance, with O’Malley getting the split decision nod. That victory set up O’Malley to face Sterling in August 2023.
O’Malley has not fought since his loss to Dvalishvili. He is the No. 1 fighter in the official UFC bantamweight rankings.
UFC 316 Co-Main Event: Julianna Pena Vs. Kayla Harrison
Julianna Pena (12-5) earned her UFC contract by winning Season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter. A member of Team Tate, Pena knocked out Jessica Rakoczy in the first round of their November 2013 matchup. The win moved Pena’s record to 5-2.
Pena ran off three victories after that, beating Milana Dudieva, Jessica Eye and Cat Zingano before Valentina Shevchenko ended her winning streak with a January 2017 armbar submission.
In October 2017 Pena announced her pregnancy. When she returned to action in July 2019, Pena defeated Nicco Montano by decision. A submission loss to De Randamie in October 2020 followed.
In January 2021, Pena submitted Sara McMann. Pena, sitting at No. 3 in the women’s bantamweight rankings, earned a shot at Amanda Nunes and her bantamweight title in December 2021. She entered that contest as a -650 underdog to the champ, who was the -1000 betting favorite.
In one of the more shocking upsets in UFC title fight history, Pena submitted Nunes in the second round, ending the Brazilian’s title reign.
Pena’s time at the top of the division was short, as Nunes won their July 2022 rematch by decision.
Pena was set to face Nunes in a trilogy bout at UFC 289, but an injury knocked the former champ from that scrap. Nunes defeated Pena’s replacement, Irene Aldana, on that card and then retired.
When Pena returned to action it was at UFC 307 where she defeated then-champion Raquel Pennington via split decision. She makes her first defense of that belt at UFC 316.
A two-time Olympic gold medal winner in judo (2012 and 2016), Kayla Harrison (18-1) made her MMA debut in the 155-pound division with PFL in 2018. Harrison ran over her first six opponents, picking up three submissions, two knockouts, and a decision before winning the women’s lightweight title by defeating Larissa Pacheco by decision.
In November 2020, Harrison defeated Courtney King by TKO in a 145-pound scrap. Shen then moved back to 155 pounds. In 2021, Harrison won the PFL 155-pound tournament with a submission win over Taylor Guardado.
By 2022, Harrison had amassed a 15-0 record. However, her unbeaten ended in the finals of the 2022 PFL lightweight tourney when Pacheco scored a unanimous decision win over Harrison. The ex-champ fought once more for the PFL, beating former UFC fighter Aspen Ladd via decision in November 2023 in a 150-pound catchweight fight.
In January 2024, the UFC announced it had signed Harrison and that her promotional debut would take place in the 135-pound weight class. Harrison impressed in that performance, submitting former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm by submission in the second round at UFC 400.
In her next, and most recent, outing, Harrison defeated Ketlen Vieira via unanimous decision.
Harrison is the No. 2 ranked fighter in the official UFC women’s 135-pound rankings.
UFC 316 Fight Card: Mario Bautista vs. Patchy Mix
Patchy Mix (20-1) comes too the UFC following his release by PFL. The 31-year-old Mix is riding a seven-fight undefeated streak. He won the interim Bellator bantamweight title in April 2023 with a knockout victory over Raufeon Stots. Then, in November 2023, Mix unified the Bellator 135-pound titles with a submission victory over Sergio Pettis. In his most recent outing, Mix defended his crown with a split decision win over Magomed Magomedov in May 2024.
Mix’s only professional defeat came in September 2020 when Juan Archuleta defeated him via unanimous decision in a contest for the vacant Bellator bantamweight crown.
Mario Bautista (15-2) has been with the UFC since 2019. The 31-year-old opened his UFC run with a 2-2 record, but he is unbeaten since early 2022, with a run of seven straight wins. In his most recent outing, Bautista defeated Jose Aldo via split decision at UFC 307 in October 2024.
UFC 317 Main Event: Ilia Topuria Vs. Charles Oliveira
Topuria is a former Cage Warriors champion. He joined the UFC in 2020 with a 9-0 record. It did not take him long to make a name for himself. He was ranked No. 14 in the featherweight division after three UFC bouts at 145 pounds and one contest in the 155-pound division. Three of those scraps ended with Topuria winning via knockout.
In his first fight as a ranked featherweight, Topuria dispatched Bryce Mitchell via submission in the second round, earned his first “Performance of the Night” bonus and moved to No. 9 in the rankings.
A matchup with No. 5 ranked Josh Emmett followed the Mitchell win. Topuria picked up a decision in a “Fight of the Night” scrap. Topuria’s next fight, saw him face Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title at UFC 298. Topuria entered that bout as the No. 3 ranked featherweight. He left as the champion after knocking out Volkanovski in the second stanza.
In his first defense of the UFC featherweight crown, Topuria made history, becoming the first fighter to finish former 145-pound champion Max Holloway via strikes, knocking out the ex-champion in the third round of their UFC 308 meeting in October 2024.
When Topuria decided to move to lightweight and give up his featherweight title, he vowed to sit until he got a 155-pound title shot. That fight takes place at UFC 317.
Topuria has a 16-0 record with eight of those wins coming under the UFC banner.
Charles Oliveira (35-10-0-1) has been fighting with the UFC since 2010. He won the vacant lightweight title with his win over Chandler and defended the title once, beating Dustin Poirier. He was booked to face Justin Gaethje in his second title defense, but Oliveira missed weight for that fight, which he won by submission, losing the title on the scale.
Oliveira had a chance to regain the belt in October 2022, but Islam Makhachev submitted him and claimed the vacant belt. Since that loss, Oliveira is 1-1, beating Beneil Dariush by TKO in June 2023 and losing to Arman Tsarukyan via split decision in April of this year.
Oliveira is coming off a November 2024 decision win over Michael Chandler.
Oliveira is the No. 2 fighter in the official UFC lightweight rankings.
We will have more information on the UFC schedule for June 2025 as it becomes available.
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