UFC Announces 2025 Events in Mexico City
Mexico City and Miami had both hosted UFC events before; Montreal’s 2025 card marked the promotion’s return to the city after a decade. All three events have now taken place, so this is a retrospective on the dates, venues and headline outcomes. The embedded Bedtime MMA video is an opinion piece about events the creator wanted to see in 2025; it is not the UFC’s announcement.
Mexico City: Moreno vs. Erceg
UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Erceg took place on March 29, 2025, at Arena CDMX. The flyweight main event paired former champion Brandon Moreno with former title challenger Steve Erceg. Moreno won by unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the bout 49–46. This was a return to Mexico City, not the city’s first appearance on the UFC calendar in several years: the promotion had also staged a Mexico City event in 2024. UFC’s event announcement, official event page and scorecards confirm the matchup, venue and result.
Miami: UFC 314
UFC 314 returned to Kaseya Center in Miami on April 12. The headline was a vacant featherweight title fight between Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes. Volkanovski won a five-round unanimous decision and reclaimed the championship. Miami was not making its UFC debut: UFC 299 had been held there in March 2024. In its announcement, UFC described the April event as a return to Miami and confirmed the Kaseya Center date. The official UFC 314 announcement, event page and judges’ scorecards provide the primary record.
Montreal: UFC 315
UFC 315 took place May 10 at Bell Centre, bringing the Octagon back to Montreal for the first time in ten years. In the main event, Jack Della Maddalena defeated welterweight champion Belal Muhammad by unanimous decision to win the title. The co-main event saw Valentina Shevchenko retain her flyweight belt against Manon Fiorot by unanimous decision. UFC announced the Montreal return on February 9 and confirmed that the venue had not hosted a UFC event since UFC 186 in 2015. See the official Montreal announcement, UFC 315 event page and official results.
Three events, three different returns
The run of cards crossed three distinct UFC formats: a Fight Night in Mexico City, a numbered pay-per-view in Miami and another numbered pay-per-view in Montreal. The venues and dates were confirmed in advance, while the fights and outcomes provide the clearest way to identify what actually happened. Mexico City gave Moreno a home-country main event; Miami hosted a vacant championship bout that restored Volkanovski to the top of the division; Montreal delivered two title fights and a new welterweight champion.
These dates should not be read as evidence that all three cities were new UFC markets. The UFC had visited Mexico City in 2024 and Miami in 2024, while Montreal’s gap was the longest. That distinction corrects the earlier claim that all three places had been absent from the official calendar for several years. The source links above lead to the promotion’s event announcements, live event pages and official results, so readers can check the schedule and outcomes directly.
