Cavalcanti vs. Montague moved from UFC Qatar to UFC 335 on December 12

Jacqueline Cavalcanti's women's bantamweight bout with Michelle Montague is reportedly being moved from UFC Qatar to UFC 335, which takes place in Las Vegas on December 12, Bloody Elbow reported. The change is not officially confirmed. If it holds, UFC Qatar on November 21 will run with an all-male lineup.

The December card is headlined by Charles Oliveira defending his BMF title against Diego Lopes. It also features Alex Pereira's second heavyweight outing, against Sergei Pavlovich.

Cavalcanti, a 29-year-old from Portugal, is 10-2 and ranked eighth at women's bantamweight. She is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Ketlen Vieira on May 16, her most recent recorded fight. Before that she had won back-to-back decisions over Mayra Bueno Silva in November 2025 and Julia Avila in February 2025. She is a volume striker, landing 5.3 significant strikes per minute at 46 percent accuracy, and she has not attempted a takedown or submission in her recorded fights.

Montague arrives undefeated at 8-0, and the report says she has won both of her UFC fights by unanimous decision. That puts a perfect record and a pair of decision wins up against Cavalcanti's recent run of three straight fights that went the distance.

Why it matters

• Cavalcanti is trying to bounce back from her first loss since entering this stretch, and a win over an unbeaten opponent would restore momentum in a ranked-fighter context.
• Montague gets a step up in the opposition: Cavalcanti is a top-10 ranked fighter, and she would be moving to a bigger stage on a card topped by a BMF title fight.
• Both of Cavalcanti's last three fights and both of Montague's UFC wins have gone to the scorecards, so the matchup points toward another competitive, technical contest.

The move also reshapes two events. UFC Qatar loses its only women's bout, while UFC 335 adds a ranked women's matchup to a card already carrying a title fight and Pereira's heavyweight return.