Four Fight Cards Anchored By UFC 319

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – OCTOBER 26: Khamzat Chimaev of Russia prepares to face Robert Whittaker of New Zealand in a middleweight fight during the UFC 308 event at Etihad Arena on October 26, 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

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The UFC is in the midst of a busy schedule. On July 12, the fight promotion began a run of Saturday events featuring a UFC event that will conclude in August, following a trip to China. This means that the next break on the UFC schedule is Saturday, August 30. The highlight of the August UFC run is the UFC 319 pay-per-view fight card. Below, we look at the full UFC schedule for August.

Fight cards are subject to change, and not all events are completely booked at this time.

UFC Schedule August 2025: UFC Vegas 108

The first fight card on the August UFC schedule is UFC Vegas 108. That event takes place on Saturday, August 2, and is headlined by a short-notice flyweight matchup. In the UFC Fight Night main event, Hyun Sung Park steps in for the injured Amir Albazi against top-10-ranked UFC contender Tatsuro Taira.

UFC Vegas 108 airs on ESPN, with prelims at 6:00 p.m. ET and a 9:00 p.m. ET main card.

UFC Vegas 108 Main Card

Tatsuro Taira vs. Hyun Sung Park – Flyweight

Chris Duncan vs. Mateusz Rebecki – Lightweight

Elves Brener vs. Esteban Ribovics – Lightweight

Nora Cornolle vs. Karol Rosa – Women’s bantamweight

Neil Magny vs. Elizeu Zaleski – Welterweight

Danny Silva vs. Kevin Vallejos – Featherweght

UFC Vegas 108 Preliminary Card

Nathan Fletcher vs. Rinya Nakamura – Bantamweight

Tresean Gore vs. Rodolfo Vieira – Middleweight

Nick Klein vs. Andrey Pulayev – Middleweight

Felipe Bunes vs. Rafael Estevam – Flyweight

Piera Rodriguez vs. Ketlen Souza – Strawweight

UFC Schedule August 2025: UFC Vegas 109

The UFC is at the Apex in Las Vegas in back-to-back weeks for the first time since a two-week run in May when it presents the UFC Vegas 109 fight card on Saturday, August 9. At the top of the ESPN card is a middleweight matchup between Roman Dolidze and Anthony Hernandez. Dolidze is currently the No. 9 ranked fighter in the UFC middleweight division, while Hernandez checks in at No. 10.

UFC Vegas 109 Main Card

Roman Dolidze vs. Anthony Hernandez – Middleweight

Iasmin Lucindo vs. Angela Hill – Strawweight

Andre Fili vs. Christian Rodriguez – Featherweight

Miles Johns vs. Jean Matsumoto – Bantamweight

Eryk Anders vs. Christian Leroy Duncan – Middleweight

UFC Vegas 109 Preliminary Card

Julius Walker vs. Raffael Cerqueira – Light heavyweight

Elijah Smith vs. Toshiomi Kazama – Bantamweight

Joselyne Edwards vs. Priscila Cachoeira – Women’s bantamweight

Gabriella Fernandes vs. Julija Stoliarenko – Women’s flyweight

UFC Schedule August 2025: UFC 319

UFC 319 finds the promotion at the United Center in Chicago for the first time since 2019. The main event of the UFC 319 pay-per-view card features UFC middleweight champ Dricus du Plessis putting his belt on the line against the undefeated Khamzat Chimaev. In the evening’s co-main event, high-profile UFC free agent signing Aaron Pico faces the undefeated Lerone Murphy.

The UFC 319 main card streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view. The prelims are on ESPN following early prelims on ESPN+.

UFC 319 Pay-Per-View Card

Dricus du Plessis vs. Khamzat Chimaev – For Du Plessis’s UFC middleweight title

Lerone Murphy vs. Aaron Pico – Featherweight

Geoff Neal vs. Carlos Prates – Welterweight

Jared Cannonier vs. Michael Page – Middleweight

Tim Elliott vs. Kai Asakura – Flyweight

UFC 319 Other Official Bouts

King Green vs. Diego Ferreira – Lightweight

Gerald Meerschaert vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk – Middleweight

Jessica Andrade vs. Loopy Godinez – Women’s Strawweight

Chase Hooper vs. Alexander Hernandez – Lightweight

Edson Barboza vs. Drakkar Klose – Lightweight

Bryan Battle vs. Nursulton Ruziboev – Middleweight

UFC Schedule August 2025: UFC Shanghai

Closing out the UFC’s August schedule is an event in China. UFC Shanghai takes place at Shanghai Indoor Stadium. In the light heavyweight main event, Johnny Walker faces Zhang Mingyang. The card streams on ESPN+.

UFC Shanghai Fight Card

Johnny Walker vs. Zhang Mingyang – Light heavyweight

Brian Ortega vs. Aljamain Sterling – Featherweight

Sergei Pavlovich vs. Waldo Cortes-Acosta – Heavyweight

Song Kenan vs. Kiefer Crosbie – Welterweight

Rong Zhu vs. Austin Hubbard – Lightweight

Marco Tulio vs. Michel Pereira – Middleweight

Uran Satybaldiev vs. Diyar Nurgozhay – Light heavyweight

Lone’er Kavanagh vs. Charles Johnson – Flyweight

Xiao Long vs. You Su-young – Bantamweight

Su Mudaerji vs. Kevin Borjas – Flyweight

UFC 319 Main Event Preview

Dricus du Plessis (23-2) joined the UFC in October 2020 as a 26-year-old with a 14-2 record. Before he joined the UFC, Du Plessis had won titles with KSW and EFC. He made his debut against Markus Perez on the main card of a UFC Fight Night event in Abu Dhabi. Du Plessis knocked out Perez in the first round. He followed that win with a July 2021 “Performance of the Night” KO win of Trevin Giles.

Those two wins earned him a shot against the ranked veteran Brad Tavares. Du Plessis won that scrap via decision. The victory put him in the top 15 of the division. A December 2022 submission win over Darren Till moved Du Plessis to No. 10 in the division. A TKO win over the No. 5 ranked Derek Brunson followed.

Du Plessis, who was working his way up the rankings, faced a tough test in his next outing when he met the No. 2 ranked Robert Whittaker at UFC 290. Du Plessis continued his rise, knocking out the former UFC champion in the UFC middleweight title eliminator and earning another “Performance of the Night” bonus.

More important than the bonus was the title shot Du Plessis received for that win. He faced then-champion Sean Strickland in January, taking the title from Strickland in a “Fight of the Night” bonus-winning scrap

In his first title defense Du Plessis picked up an August 2024 submission win over former UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya.

Du Plessis most recently faced Strickland in a rematch at UFC 312 in early February of this year. Du Plessis won that contest via unanimous decision.

I wrote of the champ after that fight, “Dricus du Plessis looked much more controlled and less reckless at UFC 312 than in many of his previous battles. He mixed up his striking techniques and targets against Sean Strickland, landed the more powerful blows, and didn’t put himself in too many awkward positions.

“Du Plessis did a much better job in his UFC 312 rematch against Strickland in shutting down his foe’s offense. In the first fight, Strickland landed 173 of 408 significant strikes. While in the rematch, Strickland was held to 128 landed strikes on 263 attempts. Meanwhile, Du Plessis increased his landed strikes and landing percentage from the first fight to the second. In the first battle, Du Plessis landed 137 of 354 attempts for a landing rate of 38 percent. At UFC 312, the champ landed 147 of 314 attempts for a striking rate of 46 percent.

“Du Plessis has defended the UFC middleweight crown twice while going 9-0 in the UFC. Despite his winning ways, the champ remains a bit of an enigma because his style shouldn’t work — but it does.”

Khamzat Chimaev (14-0) is the No. 3 fighter in the official UFC middleweight rankings. The 30-year-old made his UFC debut in July 2020 with a second-round submission win over John Phillips. He followed that victory with a first-round TKO over Rhys McKee 10 days later, breaking the UFC record for the quickest turnaround between UFC wins in the modern era. Then, in September, Chimaev knocked out Gerald Meerschaert.

Things slowed down for Chimaev after that. He was booked to face Leon Edwards in December 2020, but that matchup never came to be despite multiple attempts to make the fight happen. The reason behind the numerous cancellations of Edwards vs. Chimaev was COVID-19.

When Chimaev finally returned to the Octagon in October 2021, he made short work of Li Jingliang, scoring a submission at 3:16 of Round 1.

In his next bout, Chimaev went the distance for the first time in his career, picking up a victory over Gilbert Burns. He followed that with a submission over Kevin Holland.

A break of more than a year followed that victory. Chimaev’s next outing was an October 2023 matchup against Kamaru Usman, a fight that Chimaev won via decision.

A year after that, Chimaev made short work of Robert Whittaker, defeating the ex-UFC middleweight champ via submission (face crank) in the first round of their UFC 308 scrap.

We will have more on the UFC schedule for August 2025 as each event nears, as well as results on fight night.