The event will mark the promotion’s sixth visit to New Orleans and first since UFC Fight Night: Boetsch vs. Henderson in June 2015.
Former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway will put his symbolic “BMF” (baddest motherfucker) title on the line against former interim UFC Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier in a lightweight bout in the main event. This will be their third meeting and Poirier’s retirement fight. The pairing first met at UFC 143 in February 2012, when Holloway made his promotional debut and lost by a triangle-armbar submission. Their second outing was in April 2019 at UFC 236 when Poirier became the interim lightweight champion after winning via unanimous decision, which also ended Holloway’s 13-fight win streak.
A middleweight bout between former UFC Middleweight Championship challenger Marvin Vettori and former LFA Middleweight Champion Brendan Allen is scheduled to take place at the event.[5] The pairing was previously scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Curtis 2 in April 2024, but Vettori withdrew due to an injury.
A welterweight bout between Islam Dulatov and Adam Fugitt is expected to take place at the event. The pairing was previously scheduled to meet at UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song in last February, but Dulatov was forced to withdraw due to a serious injury.
A light heavyweight bout between Jimmy Crute and Marcin Prachnio is scheduled for this event. They were originally scheduled to compete in February at UFC 312 but Prachnio had to withdraw from the fight for unknown reasons.
A middleweight bout between Ateba Abega Gautier and Robert Valentin is scheduled for this event.They were briefly scheduled to compete at UFC on ESPN: Lewis vs. Teixeira one week prior, but the pairing was moved to this event for unknown reasons.
A women’s strawweight bout between Amanda Ribas and Tabatha Ricci was scheduled for this event. However, the bout was moved to UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. de Ridder one week later for unknown reasons.
A middleweight bout between former title challenger Paulo Costa and Roman Kopylov was scheduled for UFC 317. However the bout was moved to this event for unknown reasons.
Kevin Holland and Daniel Rodriguez are scheduled to meet in a welterweight bout at this event.[18] The pairing was first booked at UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns in May 2020, but Holland pulled out due to injury. They were then expected to meet again in September 2022 at UFC 279 in a catchweight bout of 180 pounds. However, the promotion opted to book them on short notice against different opponents at the same event, mainly due to Khamzat Chimaev missing weight by nearly 10 pounds for his headliner bout (Holland and Chimaev ended up facing each other in the co-main event).
