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

The next fight card on the UFC schedule, UFC Atlanta, is nearly upon us. The UFC Fight Night event takes place on Saturday, June 14, from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The main event of UFC Atlanta is a welterweight matchup between former UFC 170-pound champion Kamaru Usman and rising contender Joaquin Buckley. Meanwhile, in the co-headliner, former UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas faces the surging Miranda Maverick at 125 pounds.

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UFC Atlanta Fight Card: Date

Saturday, June 14, 2025

UFC Atlanta Fight Card: Location

State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia

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Preliminary Card: ESPN+

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UFC Atlanta Full Fight Card

UFC Atlanta Main Card

Kamaru Usman vs. Joaquin Buckley - Welterweight

Rose Namajunas vs. Miranda Maverick - Women’s Flyweight

Cody Garbrandt vs. Raoni Barcelos - Bantamweight

Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Cody Brundage - Middleweight

Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Andre Petroski - Middleweight

Alonzo Menifield vs. Oumar Sy - Light Heavyweight

UFC Atlanta Preliminary Card

Paul Craig vs. Rodolfo Bellato - Light Heavyweight

Michael Chiesa vs. Court McGee - Welterweight

Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Kris Moutinho - Bantamweight

Cody Durden vs. Jose Ochoa - Flyweight

Ricky Simón vs. Cameron Smotherman - Bantamweight

Phil Rowe vs. Ange Loosa - Welterweight

Jamey-Lyn Horth vs. Vanessa Demopoulos - Women’s Flyweight

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UFC Atlanta Main Event: Kamaru Usman Vs. Joaquin Buckley

Kamaru Usman (20-4) , the former UFC welterweight champion, enters UFC Atlanta on a three-fight losing skid. The 38-year-old last fought in October 2023, when he dropped a split decision to Khamzat Chimaev in a middleweight matchup.

Usman lost his 170-pound crown to Edwards via a head-kick knockout at UFC 278 in August 2022. He dropped the rematch at UFC 286 in March of 2023 via a majority decision. Before his loss, Usman had defended the title five times.

Usman is the No. 5 ranked fighter in the UFC’s welterweight weight class. He has a career record of 20-3.

Joaquin Buckley (21-6) is the No. 7 fighter in the UFC’s 170-pound weight class. The 31-year-old Buckley is one quite a run since dropping to welterweight in 2023.

Buckley is 6-0 during his current welterweight run with four knockouts and two decision wins. He fought four times in 2024, picking up a knockout win over Vicente Luque, a decision victory over Nursulton Ruziboev, a knockout over two-time UFC title challenger Stephen Thompson. Buckley finished the year with a doctor stoppage TKO win over former interim UFC welterweight champion Colby Covington in December.

UFC Atlanta Co-Main Event: Rose Namajunas Vs. Miranda Maverick

Rose Namajunas (13-7) was 2-1 and had under two years of professional MMA experience when she fought Carla Esparza for the UFC women’s strawweight title on the season finale of The Ultimate Fighter Season 20. Esparza won that December 2014 bout by submission, claiming the inaugural 115-pound title.

Over the next few years, Namajunas was essentially learning on the job, and she learned well, running up a record of 4-1 between October 2015 and April 2017.

In November 2017, Namajunas stepped into the Octagon to face then-UFC strawweight titleholder Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The champ was a -700 favorite on fight night, while the challenger checked in at +500. Namajunas stunned the MMA world that night, scoring an upset first-round knockout win to become the champ. Proving her victory was not a fluke, Namajunas defeated Jedrzejczyk by decision in their rematch in April 2018.

Namajunas lost the title in her second attempted defense when Jessica Andrade scored a slam knockout win at UFC 237. A non-title fight victory over Andrade, who dropped the belt in August 2019 to Zhang Weili, followed. That win earned Namajunas another shot at the title.

In April 2021, Namajunas regained the belt with a perfectly timed head kick to stop Weili in the first round. She defeated the former champ by decision in their rematch in November 2021. Namajunas surrendered the title to Esparza in May 2022 in a tepid performance.

Since losing the title, Namajunas is 2-2 at 125 pounds, losing a decision to Manon Fiorot in September 2023, defeating Amanda Ribas by decision in March 2024 and beating Tracy Cortez by decision in July 2024. In her most recent outing, Namajunas dropped a decision to Erin Blanchfield in November.

Namajunas is the No. 7 ranked UFC women’s flyweight fighter.

Miranda Maverick (15-5) joined the UFC in 2020 after spending most of her time with Invicta FC. At the time, she was 7-2 and coming off a “Performance of the Night” bonus-winning decision win over Pearl Gonzalez.

Maverick opened her UFC career with two wins. The promotion then matched her against another young fighter, Maycee Barber. Barber was on a two-fight losing skid at the time. She ended that run of defeats with a split-decision win over Maverick.

Things did not get any easier for Maverick in her next matchup, as the UFC booked her opposite Erin Blanchfield, who was 1-0 in the UFC, but riding a four-fight winning streak. Blanchfield kept that winning streak intact with a unanimous decision win over Maverick.

Since those back-to-back setbacks, Maverick has gone 6-1 with her only loss being a June 2023 decision to Jasmine Jasudavicius. She is 4-0 in her most recent bouts, and coming off a unanimous decision win over Jamey-Lyn Horth in December.

Maverick is ranked 11th in the UFC’s 125-pound division.

We will have more on the UFC Atlanta fight card as fight night nears, and fight night results and reactions on Saturday.