UFC 335 has a shape now. Charles Oliveira will defend the BMF title against Diego Lopes in a 155-pound main event on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Jesse Holland laid out the lineup for MMA Mania on Tuesday, and Yahoo Sports carried the same card.
The prelims start at 5 p.m. ET and the main card follows at 9 p.m. ET, with the whole night streaming on Paramount+. As of Oct. 6 the preliminary bouts are still listed as TBA. The standard warning is printed right under the card, too: bout order, the number of fights and the matchups themselves are all subject to change.
What’s on the main card
Four fights sit beneath the headliner so far, and they run across three divisions plus the lightweight main event.
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The co-main slot is the one that will get read twice. Alex Pereira vs. Sergei Pavlovich is listed at 265 pounds, which puts Pereira in a heavyweight fight against a man who has lived in that division. Whatever you think of the idea, it’s the matchup on this card most likely to fill a group chat by lunchtime.
At flyweight, Brandon Moreno meets Charles Johnson at 125 pounds. Then there’s Joe Pyfer vs. Bo Nickal at 185, a middleweight pairing that the promotion has slotted onto the pay-per-view portion instead of tucking it away on the prelims.
Oliveira comes in holding the BMF belt, and Lopes is the man booked to take it. The published listing is bare. It carries no records, no odds and no recent results for anyone on the card, so the fuller picture of where each fighter stands will have to come as fight week gets closer and the promotion starts building the event in earnest.
What’s next
The prelims are the obvious open space. With roughly nine weeks between the card’s publication and fight night, there’s time to fill those slots and time for something on the main card to fall apart, which is how December cards tend to go. The core of it, Oliveira and Lopes on top with Pereira and Pavlovich underneath, is what’s locked in on paper today.
My take: the headliner is the reason to buy, but the card’s character lives a few lines down. A Pereira fight at 265 is the sort of booking people will argue about until the walkouts, and putting Pyfer and Nickal on the main card tells you the UFC wants middleweight eyeballs on that fight from the first bell of the 9 p.m. broadcast. If the prelims fill in with anything close to that energy, Dec. 12 in Las Vegas is going to be a long, loud night.
