The UFC 326 card is starting to take shape.
On Saturday, the promotion announced four new fights for the March 7 card in Las Vegas: Caio Borrallo vs. Reinier de Ridder at middleweight, Renato Moicano vs. Brian Ortega at lightweight, Paulo Costa vs. Brunno Ferreira at middleweight and Cody Garbrandt vs. Xiao Long at bantamweight.
There are four fights on the card, joining Max Holloway against Charles Oliveira.
Borrallo, ranked No. 7, returns to the Octagon for the first time since suffering his only UFC loss to Nasurdin Imavov on Sept. 6. The 32-year-old Brazilian (17-2) has rocketed up the middleweight rankings after notable wins over Jared Cannonier and Paul Craig.
De Ridder, the No. 8 contender, has quickly worked his way up to become one of the top contenders in the division with four wins since joining the promotion at the end of 2024. The 35-year-old (21-3) outlasted Gerald Meerschaert, Kevin Holland and Bo Nickel to defeat former champion Robert Whittaker by split decision.
However, in his last fight against Brendan Allen on October 18, de Ridder's team threw in the towel.
At lightweight, No. 10 contender Moicano will look to exact revenge on one of the division's greatest fighters, Ortega.
The two fought in 2017 and Ortega won by submission.
Both fighters are currently on two-fight losing streaks, with Brazilian Moicano losing to Beneil Dariush at UFC 317 and Islam Makhachev at UFC 311.
Moicano (20-7-1) had a solid four-fight winning streak from November 2022 to September 2024, picking up wins over Brad Riddell, Drew Dober, Jalin Turner and Benoit St. Denis.
Ortega, a 34-year-old American, has won just twice since 2020 as one of the top contenders. Ortega (16-5) has twice competed for the lightweight belt, losing to Max Holloway at UFC 231 and Alex Volkanovski at UFC 266.
His last win came against Yair Rodriguez on February 24, 2024, and his last fight was a loss to Aljamain Sterling in August.
Costa will face Ferreira in a fight between two Brazilian middleweights. Costa (15-4) is ranked 13th and is coming off a win over Roman Kopylov in July. The 34-year-old won his first four UFC fights via KO/TKO but has yet to record a finish since then.
Since 2018, his only fight that didn't go the distance was a KO/TKO loss to Israel Adesanya for the title in 2020.
Ferreira (15-2) is one of the hottest fighters in the division, with three straight wins over Armen Petrosyan, Jackson McVay and Marvin Vettori.
Garbrandt suffered two losses in a row to Raoni Barcelos and Deiveson Figueiredo. The American fighter (14-7) previously held the bantamweight title in 2016 but was unable to regain the belt after two losses to TJ Dillashaw.
Xiao (27-10) is in his fourth fight with the promotion, having gone 1-2 in his previous bouts. He last fought in August, losing to Soo Yeon Yoo via unanimous decision.
