UFC 317 Fight Card: Date, Time, Location, How To Watch Or Stream

The next pay-per-view card on the 2025 UFC schedule is nearly upon us. That event, UFC 317, takes place on Saturday, June 28, and is headlined by two title fights. The event also features a pivotal contest in the UFC’s flyweight division.

In the UFC 317 main event, two former champions, Ilia Topuria and Charles Oliveira, battle it out for the vacant UFC lightweight strap. Meanwhile, in the UFC 317 co-main event, UFC flyweight kingpin Alexandre Pantoja attempts to make his fourth defense of the title he claimed in June 2023. Pantoja faces former interim UFC 125-pound title challenger Kai Kara France in that matchup.

Before those two title fights, former UFC flyweight title challenger Brandon Royval looks to stop the charge of rising star Joshua Van in a 125-pound fight that could have a profound effect on the UFC flyweight rankings.

UFC 317 Fight Card: Date

Saturday, June 28, 2025

UFC 317 Fight Card: Location

T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV

UFC 317 Fight Card: How to Watch Or Stream

Main Card: ESPN+ PPV

Preliminary Card: ESPN and ESPN+

Early Prelims: UFC Fight Pass and ESPN+

UFC 317 Fight Card: Fight Card Time

Early Prelims: 6:00 p.m. ET

Prelims: 8:00 p.m. ET

Main Card: 10:00 p.m. ET

UFC 317 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.

UFC 317 Co-Main Event: Alexandre Pantoja Vs. Kai Kara-France

Alexandre Pantoja (29-5) is on a seven-fight winning streak heading into UFC 317. The 35-year-old Brazilian made his UFC debut in July 2017 with a split-decision win over Eric Shelton. Pantoja’s career had its ups and downs over the next three years, where he went 5-3, but he has not lost since he dropped a decision to Askar Askarov in July 2020.

Pantoja won the UFC flyweight title in July 2023 on the heels of two “Performance of the Night” submission wins. Pantoja secured the 125-pound title with a split decision win over Brandon Moreno. Since that victory, Pantoja has defended his three times, beating Brandon Royval in December 2023 and Steve Erceg in May 2024. Both fights ended in decision victories. Pantoja picked up his 19th career finish in his third title defense, submitting Kai Asakura at UFC 310 in December 2024.

Kai Kara-France (25-11-0-1) was 17-7-0-1 when he got the call from the UFC in 2019. In his first fight with the promotion, the New Zealander faced a short-notice opponent in Elias Garcia. The two won “Fight of the Night” honors for their efforts, with Kara-France picking up the decision win.

Kara-France followed that victory with two more wins on the judge’s scorecards. Then, in December 2019, he faced future champion Brandon Moreno on the early prelims of the UFC 245 pay-per-view card. Moreno won that bout by decision.

Kara-France went 1-1 in his next two outings. He then tore off three straight wins between March 2021 and March 2022 and found himself as the No. 2 ranked fighter in the division. In his next outing, he faced Moreno, who was ranked No. 1, in the co-main event of UFC 277. At stake was the interim UFC flyweight title. Moreno won that contest by TKO in the third round.

Kara-France followed that setback with a split-decision loss to Amir Albazi in June 2023.

Kara-France was booked to face Manel Kape in September 2023, but a concussion during training camp prevented Kara-France from competing on that card, UFC 293. The 32-year-old would not return to action until August 2024, where he earned a first-round TKO win, and a “Performance of the Night” bonus against Steve Erceg.

Kara-France enters UFC 317 as the No. 4 fighter in the official UFC flyweight rankings.

UFC 317 Fight Card: Brandon Royval Vs. Joshua Van

Brandon Royval (17-7) joined the UFC in 2020 with a 10-4 record. At the time, Royval was coming off a November 2019 submission win over Nate Williams, earning him the LFA flyweight title.

Royval did not get an easy matchup in his first UFC bout, as he was booked against former UFC flyweight title challenger Tim Elliott in a slight upset. The matchup won “Fight of the Night” honors.

Royval followed that win with another stoppage in another “Fight of the Night” bonus-winning scrap, submitting the favored Kai Kara-France in the second round of their September 2020 matchup.

Royval ended 2020 with a TKO loss to Brandon Moreno and began 2021 with a submission setback to Alexandre Pantoja. Both those men would go on to hold the UFC flyweight title.

Bouncing back from those losses, Royval went on a three-fight winning streak, picking up another two performance-based bonuses. Then, in December 2023, he got a chance to avenge his submission loss to Pantoja in a matchup for Pantoja’s title. That bout took place at UFC 296, and although Royval went the five-round distance, he was on the wrong end of a unanimous decision.

Royval returned in the win column in February 2024 with a split decision triumph over Moreno in another five-round scrap. In October, Royval defeated the rising Tatsuro Taira in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card, beating the 25-year-old by split decision.

The 32-year-old Royval has four knockout wins, nine submissions, and four decisions. Royval’s losses have come by knockout (one), submission (one), and decision (five).

Joshua Van (14-2) won the vacant Fury FC flyweight title in his eighth pro bout, submitting Cleveland McLean in the second round of that matchup. Not long after that, Van was booked to face Kevin Borjas on a Dana White’s Contender Series Card, but the UFC plucked him from that event to face Zhalgas Zhumagulov in June 2024. Van won that contest by split decision.

Van followed that victory with wins over Kevin Borjas and Felipe Burns. In July 2024, the UFC booked Van against the more experienced Charles Johnson. While Van had success in the first two rounds, he wilted under Johnson’s pressure early in the third stanza. Johnson won the bout via knockout.

Since that loss, Van has gone 4-0 with three decisions and in his most recent trip to the Octagon, a knockout.

Van has looked better in each of his UFC fights and he seems ready to face high-level competition, but the No. 1 ranked contender? No one should question Van for accepting the opportunity to face Royval, but it could be too much too soon for the 23-year-old.

Van has seven knockout wins, two submissions and five decisions. His losses have come by knockout and submission.

We will have more on UFC 317, including results, reactions and highlights on fight night.