The UFC is kicking off 2026 in style.<\/p>\n
In January, the UFC begins a new era with broadcast partner Paramount+, and on Friday, before the UFC 323 ceremonial weigh-ins, the promotion held its seasonal \u201cIt\u2019s On\u201d press conference, highlighting the marquee fights for the start of 2026 and the new era.<\/p>\n
UFC 324 takes place on Jan. 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and will be headlined by an interim lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett. The event also features a women\u2019s bantamweight title fight between Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes, and a men\u2019s bantamweight bout between Sean O\u2019Malley and Song Yadong. UFC 325 UFC 325 takes place at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, and is headlined by a featherweight title fight rematch between Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes. All eight fighters from these cards were in attendance, plus Derrick Lewis and Waldo Cortes-Acosta, who face off UFC 324.<\/p>\n
Plus, the UFC surprised everyone by announcing that Max Holloway will defend his \u201cBMF\u201d title against Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC 326 in March at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with both men in attendance for the press conference as well.<\/p>\n
After a very cordial press conference from all parties, the promotion had the fighters face off for the first time. Check out the initial stare downs above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC is kicking off 2026 in style. In January, the UFC begins a new era with broadcast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-328174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}