The UFC is less than three weeks away from the start of its 2026 schedule and with each passing day for hunger grown for octagon action to return.
With a new year comes a plethora of new opportunity. Massive title turnover in nearly every division in 2025 reset the scenes going into a defining year for the organization where it will kick off its new U.S. rights agreement with Paramount+/CBS.
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Before the fights kick off with UFC 324 on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas, a number of MMA Junkie and other industry reporters discussed the storylines that interest them most and the fights they want to see in every weight class, with options including Alex Pereira vs. Jon Jones, Kamaru Usman vs. Belal Muhammad, Ilia Topuria vs. Arman Tsarukyan and much more.
Check out the video above as MMA Junkie’s Farah Hannoun and Ken Hathaway, longtime reporter John Morgan, The Mac Life’s Oscar Willis, Uncrowned’s Petesy Carroll and TNT Sports’ Chamatkar Sandhu join MMA Junkie senior reporter Mike Bohn on “The Bohnfire” podcast to discuss the state of the union in every UFC division going into 2026.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC 2026 preview: Top storylines, fights to make in every division
