UFC 330: Islam Makhachev to defend welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry in Philadelphia on Aug. 15, 2026
Islam Makhachev will defend his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330, staged at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, August 15, 2026. The card is headlined by two title fights, with a women's strawweight championship bout also scheduled as the co-main event.
Makhachev enters the fight as the reigning champion and is described in reports as the sport’s reigning pound-for-pound king; the bout is his first title defense after he dethroned former champion Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322 last November. Garry is presented as the division’s number 2 contender and the betting underdog, holding a 17-1 record with his only promotional loss coming to Shavkat Rakhmonov at UFC 310. Following that defeat, Garry rebounded with wins over Carlos Prates and former champion Belal Muhammad.
The co-main event pairs women's strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern with challenger Gillian Robertson; like Makhachev, Dern is making her first title defense after capturing the vacant title against Virna Jandiroba in October 2025. That matchup occupies the card's co-main slot alongside the welterweight championship headline.
Other names on the UFC 330 card include Jalin Turner, Edson Barboza, Esteban Ribovics, Neil Magny, Vicente Luque and Charles Johnson. The featured bout on the prelims is Chidi Njokuani versus Joel Álvarez, and the early prelims will be closed by Rafael Tobias against Lucas Fernando.
Broadcast timings listed for the event show the early prelims beginning at 5:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM PT (10:00 PM BST, Saturday / 2:30 AM IST, Sunday / 7:00 AM AEST, Sunday, 11:00 PM CST, Saturday). The preliminary card is scheduled to start at 7:00 PM ET (12:00 AM BST, Sunday / 4:30 AM IST, Sunday / 9:00 AM AEST, Sunday / 1:00 AM CST, Sunday).
The main card is scheduled to begin at 9:00 PM ET in the United States, 2:00 AM BST in the UK, 6:30 AM IST in India and 11:00 AM AEST in Australia on Sunday, August 16. Fans in India and Australia are noted as being able to watch in the early-to-late morning hours of Sunday, August 16, local time.
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