UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs Guskov streams live on Paramount+ in Australia. Prelims start at 11pm AEST on Saturday 25 July and the main card follows at 2am AEST on Sunday 26 July, live from the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.

That is a rare bit of scheduling luck. Most UFC cards land in the middle of a Sunday for Australian viewers.

his one runs Saturday night into Sunday morning, and in Perth it kicks off at 9pm on a Saturday, which is about as good as it gets for a card broadcast from the other side of the planet.

Ankalaev headlines against Guskov in the light heavyweight main event. Steve Erceg is second from the top. Below are the start times by state, the full card and where to find every fight.

When Ankalaev vs Guskov Starts in Australia

The card is also billed as UFC Abu Dhabi and it runs at an unusual hour by UFC standards, because the Etihad Arena is a long way from Las Vegas.

Prelims, Saturday 25 July:

• 11:00pm AEST in NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT and Tasmania
• 10:30pm ACST in South Australia and the Northern Territory
• 9:00pm AWST in Western Australia

Main card, Sunday 26 July:

• 2:00am AEST
• 1:30am ACST
• 12:00am AWST

Ankalaev and Guskov walk last, so the main event realistically lands somewhere around 5am AEST depending on how quickly the earlier fights finish.

Erceg is in the co-main slot, which usually puts him in the Octagon between about 3:30am and 4:30am AEST.

Where to Watch UFC Fight Night in Australia

Paramount+ carries the lot. Since 1 January 2026, every UFC Fight Night main card and prelim card in Australia streams on Paramount+ as part of a standard subscription, with no pay-per-view charge sitting on top of it.

The rules changed this year and it trips people up. Numbered UFC events, the ones with a number in the title, still have their main cards locked behind Main Event pay-per-view on Foxtel and Kayo Sports.

Fight Nights do not work that way any more. Ankalaev vs Guskov is a Fight Night, so Paramount+ is the only subscription you need.

Early prelims, on the cards that have them, go out on both Paramount+ and UFC Fight Pass. Network 10 also carries select UFC events free to air, though that slate leans towards the numbered cards rather than the weekly Fight Nights.

Steve Erceg Is the Reason for Aussies to Stay Up

Erceg is the No. 10 ranked flyweight in the world and he fights out of Perth, which makes this the most compelling fight on the card for an Australian audience.

His run to the top has been strange. Erceg earned a UFC title shot in only his fourth appearance in the promotion, having come up through Eternal MMA and HEX Fight rather than a famous camp, and he pushed Alexandre Pantoja for five rounds at UFC 301 before losing the decision.

That was the first of three straight defeats, followed by Kai Kara-France in front of a home crowd at UFC 305 in Perth and then Brandon Moreno in Mexico City. Losing to three of the best flyweights of the era is not the worst run a bloke can have.

He has since won two on the bounce, taking a decision off Ode' Osbourne and then outpointing the awkward veteran Tim Elliott at RAC Arena in Perth in May. A third straight win puts him right back in the mix at 125 pounds. He is 14-4 as a professional, still trains at Wilkes Martial Arts under the coach who first held pads for him as a teenager, and he turns 31 two days after this fight.

Ramazan Temirov is 19-3, fights out of Karshi in Uzbekistan and is 2-0 in the UFC. He returns from a PED suspension, which is the sort of detail that tends to move a market one way or the other.

Full Fight Card

Main card, from 2am AEST Sunday 26 July:

• Magomed Ankalaev vs Bogdan Guskov, light heavyweight
• Steve Erceg vs Ramazan Temirov, flyweight
• Islam Dulatov vs Wellington Turman, welterweight
• Damian Rzepecki vs Magomed Zaynukov, lightweight
• Tyrell Fortune vs Rizvan Kuniev, heavyweight

Prelims, from 11pm AEST Saturday 25 July:

• Saygid Izagakhmaev vs Abubakar Vagaev, welterweight
• Thomas Petersen vs Valter Walker, heavyweight
• Dustin Jacoby vs Muhammad Said, light heavyweight
• Sam Patterson vs Santiago Ponzinibbio, welterweight
• Ismael Bonfim vs Axel Sola, lightweight
• Brendson Ribeiro vs Magomed Tuchalov, light heavyweight
• Nurullo Aliev vs Mike Davis, lightweight
• Cody Gibson vs Abdul Hussein, bantamweight

Fight cards move right up until the weigh-ins, so check the running order on the night.

What Is Riding on the Main Event

Ankalaev has not fought since October, when Alex Pereira took the light heavyweight title back off him in 80 seconds at UFC 320.

Before that night he had gone 14 fights unbeaten, so a single bad minute wiped out a very long stretch of good work.

Guskov was not the original opponent. Khalil Rountree Jr. pulled out injured and the Uzbek accepted on less than two weeks' notice, which is the kind of call that either builds a career or ends a decent run

He is 18-3-1 with 15 knockouts, arriving off a majority draw with former champion Jan Blachowicz and a first-round finish of Nikita Krylov before that.

A genuine finisher on short rest against a patient technician who prefers to grind.

Our full breakdown of the matchup sits in the Ankalaev vs Guskov prediction , and the UFC betting markets are open across the card.