The UFC wrapped up its first quarter of 2023 on March 25 with a fight card in San Antonio. The affair was the promotion’s 10th event of the year. The UFC is off this weekend. However, the organization returns to action on April 8 with UFC 287, an ESPN+ streaming pay-per-view card headlined by a rematch between current UFC middleweight champion Alex Pereira and ex-titleholder Israel Adesanya. That event kicks off a run of 11 cards the promotion has booked for the year’s second quarter.
The first three months of 2023 were momentous for the promotion, with several UFC records broken over that time.