UFC Belgrade: Full Card Set, 14 Fights, Medic Headlines
Three days out, the running order is locked. Medic meets Rodriguez over five rounds at Belgrade Arena, with Blachowicz and Rakic on the main card and one bout lost along the way.
Three days before the opening bell at Belgrade Arena, the running order is locked and nobody is touching it again. UFC Belgrade goes on Saturday, August 1, 2026, with 14 fights booked, six on the main card and eight on the prelims.
The show is billed officially as UFC Fight Night 283, Medic vs Rodriguez. It also puts Serbia on the map as the 33rd country to host the promotion, and the broadcast runs on Paramount+.
Medic vs Rodriguez, five rounds at welterweight
The main event belongs to Uros Medic, ranked 14th at welterweight with a 13-3 record. Across from him stands Daniel Rodriguez, 15th in the same division at 20-5. The fight is scheduled for five rounds, the format reserved for the last bout of the night.
One place separates them in the rankings. The mileage gap is wider: Rodriguez walks in with 25 professional fights behind him, Medic with 16. That is the one number on this card that says something in advance about how the night might go if the main event drags into the championship rounds.
The rest of the main card
Five more bouts sit above the prelims:
- Jan Blachowicz vs Navajo Stirling, light heavyweight
- Aleksandar Rakic vs Marcin Tybura, heavyweight
- Dusko Todorovic vs Robert Valentin, middleweight
- Vlasto Cepo vs Gilbert Urbina, middleweight
- Milos Janicic vs Noah Gugnon, lightweight
What time does the card start?
Prelims open at 10 a.m. Eastern, the main card at 1 p.m. Eastern. In Belgrade that means 4 p.m. for the first fights and 7 p.m. for the main card, since the gap in August is six hours. Anyone tuning in for the headliner only should count on Medic and Rodriguez walking out last, behind the five other main card bouts.
How the card changed on the way to Belgrade
What goes on Saturday is not what was first announced. Belgrade was originally set to host the rematch between Jan Blachowicz and Bogdan Guskov, but Guskov was moved to the show a week earlier after Khalil Rountree Jr. pulled out injured. Blachowicz drew Stirling instead, and the Guskov rematch stays an unpaid bill that has to be booked somewhere else.
The other changes:
- the heavyweight bout between Ante Delija and Johnny Walker was scrapped after Delija withdrew injured and no replacement was found
- Max Gimenis fell out of the fight with Jovan Leka and was replaced by promotional newcomer Alexander Poppeck
- Josias Musasa fell out of the fight with Mark Vologdin and was replaced by promotional newcomer Borislav Nikolic
Delija against Walker is the only booking that never got filled, which is why the night sits at 14 fights instead of 15.
Prelims, eight bouts
- Ludovit Klein vs Tofiq Musayev
- Oban Elliott vs Michael Oliveira
- Borislav Nikolic vs Mark Vologdin
- Dennis Buzukja vs Bogdan Grad
- Mateusz Rebecki vs Kyle Prepolec
- Nina Nikolija Milosevic vs Hailey Cowan
- Jovan Leka vs Alexander Poppeck
- Marina Spasic vs Stephanie Luciano
Two of those prelim fighters were slotted in late, which in practice means a short camp and thin video on the opponent for both corners. In MMA that usually favours the man who spent the whole camp preparing for one specific style.
Four changes and one lost fight later, the main card came through untouched. First bell is Saturday at 4 p.m. Belgrade time.
