UFC Announces Six Bouts For 2026 Noche UFC Fight Card

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 13: A item changeable of a Noche UFC Octagon Girl paper betwixt rounds during the Noche UFC arena astatine Frost Bank Center connected September 13, 2025 successful San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

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This year’s version of Noche UFC takes spot connected September 12 from Desert Diamond Arena successful Glendale, Arizona. The yearly arena celebrating Mexican Independence Day has an early commencement clip truthful arsenic not to interfere pinch the boxing paper headlined by Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn that takes spot later that evening successful Las Vegas.

Last year’s Noche UFC paper took spot astatine Sphere successful Las Vegas and was headlined by a featherweight bout betwixt Diego Lopes and Jean Silva. Lopes won that title by second-round TKO.

While the promotion has not yet confirmed the main arena for this year’s Noche UFC, it has announced six charismatic fights for the event, which is the first of seven TKO events successful the authorities complete the adjacent 3 years.

Official Noche UFC 2026 Fights

Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs. Curtis Blaydes
Manon Fiorot vs. Alexa Grasso
Brandon Moreno vs. Joseph Morales
Tim Elliott vs. Édgar Cháirez
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Yousri Belgaroui
JJ Aldrich vs. Regina Tarin

Alexa Grasso vs. Manon Fiorot

Alexa Grasso (16-4-1) was a cleanable 8-0 erstwhile she signed pinch the UFC successful August 2016. She debuted pinch a triumph complete Heather Jo Clark successful November of that year. However, she struggled aft that, going 2-3 successful her adjacent 5 fights. Grasso hit Randa Markos and Karolina Kowalkiewicz complete that two-year agelong while falling to Felice Herrig, Tatiana Suarez, and Carla Esparza. Grasso’s first six UFC fights each took spot astatine strawweight.

In 2020, Grasso made the move to flyweight, and it paid off. Four wins betwixt August 2020 and October 2022 put her wrong the apical six of the 125-pound section and earned her a changeable astatine then-champion Valentina Shevchenko successful March 2023.

In a astonishing upset connected the UFC 285 card, Grasso submitted Shevchenko to declare the title and manus Shevchenko her first conclusion since she mislaid to Amanda Nunes successful a bantamweight title conflict successful March 20216.

In a September 2023 rematch pinch Shevchenko, Grasso retained her loop successful a combatant that was ruled a divided draw. Grasso’s run pinch the loop ended astatine UFC 306 successful September 2024 erstwhile Shevchenko earned a unanimous determination win.

Grasso dropped her adjacent conflict arsenic well, losing a decision to Natalia Silva by determination astatine UFC 315 successful May 2025.

The erstwhile champ sewage backmost successful the win column successful her astir caller outing, knocking retired Maycee Barber successful March.

Grasso is the No. 3 classed combatant successful the official UFC women’s flyweight rankings.

Manon Fiorot (13-2) has 1 UFC conclusion connected her record, a May 2025 title conflict setback to UFC flyweight champion Shevchenko. The 36-year-old is the No. 2 classed combatant successful the charismatic UFC women’s 125-pound rankings.

Fiorot, a erstwhile UAE Warrior’s flyweight champ, joined the UFC successful 2021. In her first conflict pinch the promotion, Fiorot defeated Victoria Leonardo via knockout. Since then, she has steadily climbed the rankings.

Leading up to her title shot, Fiorot defeated erstwhile UFC champion Rose Namajunas and rising Erin Blanchfield, who was connected a nine-fight winning streak heading into their UFC Fight Night main arena successful March 2024. Her nonaccomplishment to Shevchenko was a 48-47 x 3 determination connected the scorecards.

Fiorot bounced backmost from that setback pinch an October 2025 TKO triumph complete Jasmine Jasudavicius.

Noche UFC 2026 has a commencement clip of 5:00 p.m ET for the main card. The prelims statesman astatine 2:00 p.m. ET. The full paper streams connected Paramount+.