The UFC on Wednesday announced the full thirteen-fight card of UFC 324 next January, which marks the promotion’s debut on streaming service Paramount+.
Barring any withdrawals or last-minute additions, the card looks to be a solid numbered event, with two previously announced title fights, and several former champs and title challengers. Headlined by Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett vying for an interim lightweight championship, UFC 324 takes place on January 24, 2026 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kayla Harrison versus Amanda Nunes in a women’s bantamweight title fight, another previously announced match-up, serves as co-headliner. Nunes will return from retirement for the fight, which pits two of the best female mixed martial artists of all time against one another.
Nunes is a former UFC double champ (bantamweight and featherweight, often called the female GOAT). Harrison is an ex-two time PFL women’s lightweight champ, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in Judo, and the current 135lb champion in the UFC.
Among the fights confirmed by the UFC on Wednesday, ex-flyweight title challenger Alex Perez will meet Charles “Inner G” Johnson, in a battle of the #11 and #13 ranked 125’ers in the promotion. Veteran Michael Johnson will take on Alexander Hernandez at lightweight, while #13-ranked light heavyweight Nikita Krylov takes on former Cage Warriors star Modestas Bukauskas.
Bukauskas, on his second stint with the UFC, will almost certainly crack the top 15 with a victory in January.
The full slate of fights officially announced for UFC 324 stands as follows:
- Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett – for the interim UFC lightweight championship
- Kayla Harrison (c) vs. Amanda Nunes – for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship
- Sean O’Malley vs. Song Yadong
- Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Derrick Lewis
- Arnold Allen vs. Jean Silva
- Natalia Silva vs. Rose Namajunas
- Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Deiveson Figueiredo
- Ateba Gautier vs. Andrey Pulyaev
- Nikita Krylov vs. Modestas Bukauskas
- Alex Perez vs. Charles Johnson
- Michael Johnson vs. Alexander Hernandez
- Josh Hotkit vs. Denzel Freeman
- Ricky Turcios vs. Cameron Smotherman
