It’s finally here! The UFC’s first PPV card of 2025 will take place this Saturday- but just barely. With Arman Tsarukyan pulling out of his main event title bout at the eleventh hour, the whole card was in trouble. Thankfully, Renato Moicano, who was fighting on the same card, stepped up and will now fight Islam Makhachev for the lightweight title.

Apart from the fights, an integral part of any UFC event that helps set the stage and create hype is the walkout. The choice of walkout music usually gives an idea about the state of mind and the intentions of a fighter. In this article, we take a look at the songs the stars on UFC 311 may choose to make their walkout to.

Islam Makhachev likes to stick to one walkout song, which he has used almost every time since his promotional debut more than a decade ago. This song is ‘Dreams’ by DJ Nariman Ajikalov, which is actually a vocal-less version of Tamila Sagaipova’s ‘My Nanak’. His short-notice opponent, Renato Moicano, too has settled on one song and uses groovy tunes of ‘Isaac’ by Edson Gomes to set the mood for his fights.

In the co-main event, Merab Dvalishvili will defend his bantamweight title for the first time since winning it spectacularly last year. For most of his UFC stint, ‘The Machine’ stuck to one walkout track- the Georgian song, ‘Midi, Midi, Movdivar’ by the artist Nicolshow. But for his last fight at UFC 306, he instead used the Georgian folk song, ‘Samshoblo’ in a clear tribute to his homeland.