The UFC has had a stellar performance over the month of April, capped off with one of the best Pay-Per-Views in recent memory with UFC 261.

This month also saw the trilogy bout between McGregor and Poirier finalized, along with the new season of The Ultimate Fighter’s cast and coaches confirmed.

This month will look to replicate that success, and we are certainly set to do so with four events including a stacked PPV in UFC 262 and fifty-one bouts booked at time of writing.

The first event going down in May is UFC Vegas 25, taking place on May 1st on the ESPN network, and highlighting a Light Heavyweight showdown between Dominick Reyes and Jiri Prochazka. The full card is as follows.

• Dominick Reyes vs. Jiri Prochazka (LHW)
• Cub Swanson vs. Giga Chikadze (FTW)
• Ion Cutelaba vs. Dustin Jacoby (LHW)
• Sean Strickland vs. Krzysztof Jotko (MW)
• Merab Dvalishvili vs. Cody Stamann (BW)
• Poliana Botelho vs. Luana Carolina (FLW)
• Luana Pinheiro vs. Randa Markos (SW)
• Gabriel Benitez vs. Jonathan Pearce (FTW)
• Kai Kamaka III vs. TJ Brown (FTW)
• Loma Lookboonmee vs. Sam Hughes (SW)
• Andreas Michailidis vs. KB Bhullar (MW)
• Luke Sanders vs. Felipe Colares (FTW)

May 8th will see another card on ESPN with UFC Vegas 26, and though the highly anticipated bout between TJ Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen fell through, we have a high profile thirteen bout card on deck.

• Michelle Waterson vs. Marina Rodriguez (SW)
• Donald Cerrone vs. Diego Sanchez (WW)
• Neil Magny vs. Geoff Neal (WW)
• Maurice Greene vs. Marcos Rogerio de Lima (HW)
• Diego Ferreira vs. Gregor Gillespie (LW)
• Amanda Ribas vs. Angela Hill (SW)
• Ben Rothwell vs. Philipe Lins (HW)
• Phil Hawes vs. Kyle Daukaus (MW)
• L’udovit Klein vs. Mike Trizano (FTW)
• Christian Aguilera vs. Carlston Harris (WW)
• Ryan Benoit vs. Zarrukh Adashev (FLW)
• Jun Yong Park vs. Tafon Nchukwi (MW)

From there, we will head into our April PPV offering in UFC 262 on May 15th. The card is ludicrously stacked with fifteen bouts at time of writing and the vacant Lightweight title in the balance in the main event.

• Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler (LW)
• Leon Edwards vs. Nate Diaz (WW)
• Tony Ferguson vs. Beneil Dariush (LW)
• Katlyn Chookagian vs. Viviane Araujo (FLW)
• Shane Burgos vs. Edson Barboza (FTW)
• Jacare Souza vs. Andre Muniz (MW)
• Jack Hermansson vs. Edmen SHahbazyan (MW)
• Matt Schnell vs. Rogerio Bontorin (FLW)
• Andrea Lee vs. Antonina Shevchenko (FLW)
• Lando Vannata vs. Mike Grundy (FTW)
• Jordan Wright vs. Jamie Pickett (MW)
• Rafael Alves vs. Damir Ismagulov (LW)
• Gina Mazany vs. Priscila Cachoeira (FLW)
• Kevin Aguilar vs. Tucker Lutz (FTW)
• Joel Alvarez vs. Christos Giagos (LW)

The final event of May will be a Fight Night card, likely on ESPN+. The main event will feature top-ranked Bantamweights going at it as Cody Garbrandt looks to continue his resurgence towards the title opposite Rob Font. Though there are just eleven bouts set currently, the card will certainly shape up as we get closer to the event date.

• Rob Font vs. Cody Garbrandt (BW)
• Yan Xiaonan vs. Carla Esparza (SW)
• David Dvorak vs. Raulian Paiva (FLW0
• Claudio Silva vs. Court McGee (WW)
• Ricardo Ramos vs. Bill Algeo (FTW)
• Yancy Medeiros vs. Damir Hadzovic (LW)
• Felicia Spencer vs. Danyelle Wolf (FTW)
• Rodrigo Nascimento vs. Alan Baudot (HW)
• Justin Tafa vs. Jared Vanderaa (HW)
• Joshua Culibao vs. Shayilan (FTW)
• Sarah Alpar vs. Stephanie Egger (BW)
• Denys Bondar vs. Victor Rodriguez (BW)

There you have it. As has become standard in the COVID-19 era, the bout orders and scheduled fights are bound to change come Fight Night, but this is the current slate of things in the Octagon.

There a more than plenty scraps to look forward to in this month! Stay tuned to our home page for any cancellations or added bouts.

Until next time, Freaks.