| UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | November 22, 2025 (2025-11-22) | |||
| Venue | Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena | |||
| City | Al Rayyan, Qatar | |||
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UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker (also known asUFC Fight Night 264) is an upcomingmixed martial arts event produced by theUltimate Fighting Championship that will take place on November 22, 2025, at theAli Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena inAl Rayyan, Qatar.[1]
This event will mark the promotion's debut in Qatar, which will become the 32nd country to hold a UFC event (also the third country in the Middle East, after theUnited Arab Emirates andSaudi Arabia).[1] There were initially rumors that the first event in the country would take place on May 17 atUFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales, but that card was moved to the UFC Apex in Las Vegas for unknown reasons.[2]
The event headliner is expected to feature a lightweight bout betweenArman Tsarukyan andDan Hooker.[3]
A heavyweight bout betweenSerghei Spivac andShamil Gaziev is scheduled for this event.[4] The pairing was originally scheduled forUFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales,[5] then shifted toUFC 316. However, Gaziev withdrew from that event due to a broken finger sustained during training.[6][7]
A middleweight bout between formerUFC Middleweight Championship challengerPaulo Costa andSharabutdin Magomedov was expected to take place at this event.[8] However, Magomedov withdrew due to undergoing nose surgery, and it remains unclear whether a replacement opponent will be secured for Costa.[9]
A heavyweight bout between promotional newcomersMarek Bujło and José Luiz was initially scheduled for the event.[10] However, Luiz was later replaced for undisclosed reasons by currentLFA Heavyweight Champion Denzel Freeman, who will also be making his promotional debut.[11]
A flyweight bout between formerUFC Flyweight Championship challengerKyoji Horiguchi (who is also a former one-timeRIZIN Flyweight and two-timeBantamweight Champion, as well as a formerBellator Bantamweight World Champion) andTagir Ulanbekov is scheduled for this event.[12] The pairing was initially expected to meet atUFC on ABC: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. in June, but Horiguchi withdrew for undisclosed reasons.[13][14]
A light heavyweight bout between formerKSW andUFC Light Heavyweight ChampionJan Błachowicz andBogdan Guskov was scheduled for this event.[15] However, the pairing was moved toUFC 323 for unknown reasons.[16]
A featherweight bout betweenMuhammad Naimov andThe Ultimate Fighter: Team Grasso vs. Team Shevchenko featherweight winner Mairon Santos was originally scheduled for this event.[17] However, for undisclosed reasons, the matchup was rescheduled to take place two weeks later atUFC 323.[18]
| Fight card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Lightweight | Arman Tsarukyan | vs. | Dan Hooker | ||||
| Welterweight | Belal Muhammad | vs. | Ian Machado Garry | ||||
| Light Heavyweight | Volkan Oezdemir | vs. | Alonzo Menifield | ||||
| Welterweight | Jack Hermansson | vs. | Myktybek Orolbai | ||||
| Heavyweight | Serghei Spivac | vs. | Shamil Gaziev | ||||
| Bantamweight | Bekzat Almakhan | vs. | Aleksandre Topuria | ||||
| Flyweight | Tagir Ulanbekov | vs. | Kyoji Horiguchi | ||||
| Flyweight | Alex Perez | vs. | Asu Almabayev | ||||
| Bantamweight | Felipe Lima | vs. | Daniel Marcos | ||||
| Middleweight | Ismail Naurdiev | vs. | Ryan Loder | ||||
| Featherweight | Bogdan Grad | vs. | Luke Riley | ||||
| Light Heavyweight | Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev | vs. | Raffael Cerqueira | ||||
