UFC 317 Fight Card Date, Time, Location And Ticket Prices

Two title fights get top billing on the upcoming UFC 317 pay-per-view event. That fight card, the second of two ESPN+ streaming PPVs on the UFC schedule for June, also features at least four other bouts that will have a bearing on the UFC rankings. UFC 317 serves as the anchor event for the 2025 edition of International Fight Week.

UFC 317 Fight Card

Ilia Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira – For vacant UFC lightweight title

Alexandre Pantoja vs. Kai Kara-France – For Pantoja’s UFC flyweight title

Beneil Dariush vs. Renato Moicano – Lightweight

Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape – Flyweight

Paulo Costa vs. Roman Kopylov – Middleweight

Jack Hermansson vs. Gregory Rodriguez – Middleweight

Jhonata Diniz vs. Justin Tafa – Heavyweight

Viviane Araújo vs. Tracy Cortez – Women’s Flyweight

UFC 317 Fight Card Date:

Saturday, June 28, 2025

UFC 317 Fight Card Time:

Main card: 10:00 p.m. ET

Preliminary Card: 8:00 p.m. ET

Early Preliminary Card: 6:00 p.m. ET

UFC 317 Fight Card Location:

Prudential Center in Newark, NJ

UFC 317 Fight Card Tickets:

UFC 316 tickets are available from AXS. The lowest price seats are $375.95. The most expensive ticket is $12,000 for a first row floor seat.

*Prices include fees, but not taxes.

UFC 317 Fight Card Main Event: How We Got A Vacant UFC Lightweight Title

In the lead-up to UFC 316, the speculation was if Belal Muhammad retained his UFC welterweight title with a win over Jack Della Maddalena, then UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev would remain at 155 pounds and defend his title against Ilia Topuria. The reason for this thinking being that Makhachev and Muhammad have trained together and that they would not be willing to face each other inside the Octagon.

However, with Jack Della Maddalena defeating Muhammad, that opened the door for Makhachev to move to welterweight. The thinking now being that he will get an immediate title shot against Maddalena in the freshly crowned champ’s first title defense.

Makhachev’s manager Ali Abdelaziz spoke to MMA Junkie about the situation.

“If Belal were to win, Islam was never going to fight Belal, and he’s going to stay in the (lightweight) division. But now Jack wins,” Abdelaziz said. “Islam has beaten everyone in this division, literally. Dan Hooker, Arman (Tsarukyan), Charles Oliveira, he’s on a 15-fight winning streak, finished nine of his last 10 opponents. (There’s no one who) deserves to go fight for a second title than Islam, and the reason he wasn’t going to do it because Belal was the champion.”

On Tuesday, White announced the plans for Della Maddalena vs. Topuria, but did not announce a date for the 170-pound title fight. With that, the UFC lightweight title will most likely become vacant the moment the UFC 317 main event begins.

UFC 317 Fight Card Main Event: Ilia Topuria Vs. Charles Oliveira

Topuria is a former Cage Warriors champion. He joined the UFC in 2020 with a 9-0 record. It did not take him long to make a name for himself. He was ranked No. 14 in the featherweight division after three UFC bouts at 145 pounds and one contest in the 155-pound division. Three of those scraps ended with Topuria winning via knockout.

In his first fight as a ranked featherweight, Topuria dispatched Bryce Mitchell via submission in the second round, earned his first “Performance of the Night” bonus and moved to No. 9 in the rankings.

A matchup with No. 5 ranked Josh Emmett followed the Mitchell win. Topuria picked up a decision in a “Fight of the Night” scrap. Topuria’s next fight, saw him face Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title at UFC 298. Topuria entered that bout as the No. 3 ranked featherweight. He left as the champion after knocking out Volkanovski in the second stanza.

In his first defense of the UFC featherweight crown, Topuria made history, becoming the first fighter to finish former 145-pound champion Max Holloway via strikes, knocking out the ex-champion in the third round of their UFC 308 meeting in October 2024.

When Topuria decided to move to lightweight and give up his featherweight title, he vowed to sit until he got a 155-pound title shot. That fight takes place at UFC 317.

Topuria has a 16-0 record with eight of those wins coming under the UFC banner.

Charles Oliveira (35-10-0-1) has been fighting with the UFC since 2010. He won the vacant lightweight title with his win over Chandler and defended the title once, beating Dustin Poirier. He was booked to face Justin Gaethje in his second title defense, but Oliveira missed weight for that fight, which he won by submission, losing the title on the scale.

Oliveira had a chance to regain the belt in October 2022, but Islam Makhachev submitted him and claimed the vacant belt. Since that loss, Oliveira is 1-1, beating Beneil Dariush by TKO in June 2023 and losing to Arman Tsarukyan via split decision in April of this year.

Oliveira is coming off a November 2024 decision win over Michael Chandler.

Oliveira is the No. 2 fighter in the official UFC lightweight rankings.

We will have more on the UFC 317 fight card and the UFC 317 main event between Ilia Topuria and Charles Oliveira as fight night approaches.