UFC 333 Fight Card: Volkanovski vs Evloev, Yan vs Dvalishvili

UFC 333 takes place on 24 October 2026 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and starts at 18:00 local time. Two titles are on the line in one evening.

The main event is a featherweight title defence: Alexander Volkanovski puts the belt on the line against Movsar Evloev, who arrives undefeated. It is the cleanest matchup a division can produce — the man who holds the title against the man who has never been beaten — and one of those two things stops being true by the end of the night.

The co-main event is a title fight as well: bantamweight champion Petr Yan defends against former champion Merab Dvalishvili, and it is the third meeting between the two. A trilogy is a different problem from a first fight: each of them already knows what the other does, so the question is what has changed since they last shared the octagon.

A few practical notes. Doors open at 17:00 local time and the card starts at 18:00, so there is an hour to get in and settle. With two belts on the line there is no obviously skippable part of the evening — plan to be in your seat from the opening bout rather than an hour before the main event. Etihad Arena holds 18,000, so the room has a fixed size; the current details are kept on the event page. Tickets for UFC 333.