Noche UFC 2026 has officially been announced for Saturday, September 12th at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona and will features two Mexican former champions.
The annual Mexican Independence Day tradition started in 2023 and has quickly become a popular series of events, stacked high with some of the UFC’s best Mexican talent. The debut Noche UFC featured then-women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso, while the second Noche UFC was held at the Sphere. Noche UFC 3 was supposed to be the first
Noche actually held in Mexico, but construction delays on Arena Guadalajara pushed them north of the border to Texas.
On Saturday night during UFC Oklahoma City, the UFC confirmed the fourth Noche UFC in Arizona and announced six fights for the card including two previous beltholders in former men’s flyweight champion Brandon Moreno and former women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso.
The full list of fights announced:
Alexa Grasso vs. Manon Fiorot
Brandon Moreno vs. Joseph Morales
Waldo Cortes Acosta vs. Curtis Blaydes
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Yousri Belgaroui
Tim Elliott vs. Edgar Chairez
JJ Aldrich vs. Regina Tarin
According to commentators on the UFC Oklahoma City broadcast, the main event for Noche UFC 2026 has yet to be announced and will be revealed in the next week. Tickets for the event go on sale Friday, June 31st.
September 12th will be a busy night for Dana White as he’ll be overseeing Zuffa Boxing’s big Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn event in Las Vegas, Nevada while Noche UFC goes down in Glendale, Arizona. This is the second year in a row that TKO is counter-programming itself. Last year, Noche UFC 3 headlined by Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva was overshadowed by the big Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford boxing superfight.
