Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently announced the upcoming UFC 325 event on Paramount+, scheduled for Sat., Jan. 31, 2026 at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Headlining the fight card will be reigning featherweight champion, Alex Volkanovski, who defends his title in a rematch against No. 2-ranked contender, Diego Lopes.
Volkanovski previously defeated Lopes at UFC 314 back in April.
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“Take risks, accept the fights that are offered, do a good job and presentation and then we talk,” Lopes wrote on social media. “Mustache season is coming. See you in Australia.”
No other fights have been announced for UFC 325 outside of the main event.
“I wanted to fight earlier,” Volkanovski said on YouTube. “I thought it was going to be December. We thought Lerone Murphy, December, then I guess UFC they’re waiting for Jean Silva and Lopes. Then they were saying Lopes and obviously, we’re like, ‘we just fought that guy.’ Is there more deserving people and whatnot? Whatever, everyone knows that I’ll fight anyone, so whoever they put in front of me, I’ll do, but there were questions.”
