Islam Makhachev will attempt to make his first defence of the welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry this summer.
The organization announced Wednesday the pair will headline UFC 330 in the summer.
Machado Garry is 17-1 and coming off consecutive wins over Carlos Prates and Belal Muhammad.
UFC 330 is scheduled to take place Aug. 15 at Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Makhachev was the UFC’s longtime lightweight champion who vacated that title in 2025 to pursue a second belt. He won the welterweight title off Jack Della Maddalena via unanimous decision in November. He is 28-1 overall and has won 16 fights in a row dating back more than a decade.
The 34-year-old from Dagestan, Russia became 155-pound champion in 2022 when he submitted Charles Oliveira before picking up title defences against then-featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (twice), Dustin Poirier and Renato Moicano. He also holds a previous non-title win over current No. 1 lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan from 2019.
A women’s strawweight title matchup between reigning 115-pound champion Mackenzie Dern and No. 5 contender Gillian Robertson has also been added to the card.
Brazil’s Dern, 33, won the vacant title this past October when she defeated Virna Janiroba. Zhang Weili was the previous champion but she vacated her title to pursue the flyweight belt, which she failed to capture at UFC 322 in November when she lost to 125-pound champ Valentina Shvchenko.
Canada’s Robertson, 31, is the No. 5-ranked contender in the division with five consecutive wins over the past 2.5 years.
Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius was also added to the card. Jasudavicius is set to take on Erin Blanchfield in a pivotal bout in the 125-pound division with Jasudavicius ranked No. 6 and Blanchfield No. 4.
Blanchfield is 11-1 in her past dozen fights while Jasudavicius is 6-1 in her past seven. Each woman’s lone loss during those respective stretches was to No. 2 contender Manon Fiorot.
