UFC 335 fight card: Oliveira vs. Lopes, Pereira vs. Pavlovich and the Pyfer vs. Nickal question

The UFC 335 fight card is headlined by Charles Oliveira vs. Diego Lopes for the BMF title, with Alex Pereira vs. Sergei Pavlovich at heavyweight in the co-main event. UFC 335 takes place on Saturday 12 December 2026 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, which is already Sunday 13 December in Europe. One bout has moved: Bo Nickal says his fight with Joe Pyfer is off the card, but the UFC has not confirmed it.

UFC 335: date, venue and start times

UFC 335 is at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and it closes the UFC's 2026 pay-per-view schedule, according to Combat Press. In the United States the early prelims start at 5 p.m. ET, the prelims at 7 p.m. ET and the main card at 9 p.m. ET. On the UFC's own event page those times appear as 11 p.m., 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. CET. The card streams on Paramount+ in the US, and the early prelims are also on UFC Fight Pass.

Main event and co-main event

Charles Oliveira defends the BMF title against Diego Lopes in a five-round lightweight fight. Lopes moves up from featherweight for his lightweight debut. In our database Oliveira is 37-11 with one no contest and ranked No. 3 at lightweight. He beat Max Holloway on 7 March 2026 at UFC 326. Lopes is 28-8 and ranked No. 2 at featherweight. His last fight was a second-round TKO of Steve Garcia on 14 June, and he lost a five-round decision to Alexander Volkanovski in January.

The co-main event is a five-round heavyweight fight between Pereira and Pavlovich. Pavlovich is 21-3 and ranked No. 2 at heavyweight, and he stopped Tallison Teixeira in the first round on 30 May. Pereira is 13-4, ranked No. 1 at light heavyweight and No. 3 at heavyweight in our data. He lost to Ciryl Gane by second-round TKO in a heavyweight title fight on 14 June.

The rest of the card as announced

The other bouts reported by Combat Press, SI and our own database are:

Brandon Moreno vs. Charles Johnson, flyweight
Maycee Barber vs. Carli Judice, women's flyweight
Quentin Pasley vs. Junior Tafa, light heavyweight, which Combat Press describes as Pasley's UFC debut
Chase Hooper vs. Chris Padilla, lightweight
Ronald Humphrey vs. Nikolay Veretennikov, welterweight

The UFC may still change the order and the number of fights, so check the official card closer to the event.

What changed: Pyfer vs. Nickal

Is Bo Nickal fighting at UFC 335? Not according to Nickal. SI, citing Bloody Elbow, reported on 16 October that he said the fight with Pyfer had been postponed until February, to headline a UFC Fight Night in Cleveland. Nickal made the comments at a rally in Ohio. SI noted that its report depended on whether his update is true, and that the UFC had not announced a date for a Cleveland card.

This is why sources disagree. The UFC event page we read still listed Pyfer vs. Nickal at middleweight, and Combat Press also listed it. Treat the move as the fighter's own claim until the UFC announces it, and not as an official change.

For the numbers, our database has Pyfer at 16-3 and ranked No. 5 at middleweight, after a second-round TKO of Israel Adesanya on 28 March. Nickal is 9-1 and ranked No. 12, and he stopped Kyle Daukaus in the first round on 14 June.

What is confirmed and what is not

Confirmed by the UFC's event page and by reporting: the date, the venue, the Oliveira vs. Lopes main event and the Pereira vs. Pavlovich co-main. Reported but not confirmed by the UFC: Pyfer vs. Nickal leaving the card.