Noche UFC ("UFC Night") is the name the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion, gives to a series of events held in September, commemorating Mexican Independence Day. These events may be numbered or presented as a single "Fight Night" event. [1] [2]
What characterizes Noche UFC is that most of the fight card, including the main event, features a variety of Mexican fighters and those foreign fighters with Mexican ancestry.
History
It was announced that UFC Fight Night 227, which fell on September 16, would be the first to bear the promotional name Noche UFC. There, Alexa Grasso, the organization's first Mexican woman world champion, made her first defense of the women's flyweight championship against former champion Valentina Shevchenko, whom she had previously defeated in March. [3] [4]
Initially, Noche UFC was thought to be a one-off event, but in early 2024, White announced that UFC 306 would be called "Noche UFC 2". [5] The event took place on September 15 at the newly built Sphere, where the main event was between Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight championship, [6] while the trilogy fight between Grasso and Shevchenko for the women's flyweight championship was moved to the co-main event. [7]
In 2025, "Noche UFC 3" was announced, originally planned to take place in Mexico, specifically in Guadalajara, Jalisco, as part of the UFC 320 event. However, the card was moved to San Antonio, Texas (and became a Fight Night) due to the construction of Arena Guadalajara being halted. [8] Diego Lopes and Jean Silva were announced as the main event fighters. [9]
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