Noche UFC Full Card, Date, Time and Hype Score: How Good Is It?

Noche UFC lost its original main event, lost an undercard bout to a visa problem five days later, and still grades out as one of the more interesting non-title cards on the 2026 calendar.

Brian Mazique’s F.I.G.H.T. System puts the fourth annual Noche UFC at a HYPE Score of 73.1 out of 100, a mark the system classifies as Highly Anticipated. The card gets there without a single championship fight, which is unusual and is the whole story of the number. Story depth and finishing ability are carrying it.

Here is the full card, the date, the start times, and the category-by-category math behind the score.

Noche UFC: Date, Start Time and How to Watch

Detail	Info
Event	Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado
Date	Saturday, September 12, 2026
Venue	Desert Diamond Arena, Glendale, Arizona
Main event	Jean Silva vs. Jose Miguel Delgado, featherweight
Co-main	Brandon Moreno vs. Joseph Morales, flyweight
Prelims	2 p.m. ET
Main card	5 p.m. ET
Streaming	Paramount+
Bouts	13
HYPE Score	73.1 out of 100, Highly Anticipated

Noche UFC HYPE Score: 73.1 Out of 100

The HYPE Score runs six weighted categories. Each is scored out of 100, multiplied by its weight, and added together.

Category	Score	Weight	Contribution
Star Power	72	25%	18.00
Rankings and Championship Fights	68	20%	13.60
Storyline Heat	89	15%	13.35
KO / Finish Rate	70.1	15%	10.51
Fan Heat / Market Buzz	66	15%	9.90
Location	77	10%	7.70
HYPE Score	73.1

Fan Heat is the one provisional number in the set. It gets rechecked against search acceleration, social virality and fight-week heat closer to the event, and it is the category most likely to move before Saturday.

Storyline Heat Is the Highest Score on the Card: 89

This is where Noche UFC separates itself from an ordinary Fight Night, and 89 is the highest mark in any category.

The card stacks an unusual number of independent stories. It runs on Mexican Independence Day weekend under a franchise banner now in its fourth year. It has a replacement main event with real hostility between the two men. It puts an Arizona fighter into a five-round hometown headliner on short notice.

Brandon Moreno returns to the building where he became Mexico’s first homegrown UFC champion, and it is his first Noche UFC appearance. Manon Fiorot and Alexa Grasso is a probable title eliminator. Two undefeated featherweight prospects meet on the main card. Dan Ige makes a weight-class drop to bantamweight. And the UFC deliberately scheduled the card early in the day so it would not run against Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn.

For a card with no belt on the line, that is a lot of separate reasons to watch.

The Finish Rate Is the Other Big Number: 70.1%

The KO / Finish Rate category takes every fighter on the card, divides career wins by stoppage into total career wins, and averages the result across all 26 competitors. For this lineup that comes out to 70.1%, which is a high figure for a 13-fight card.

Four fighters push the average up hard.

Fighter	Finishes / Wins	Finish Rate
Marwan Rahiki	9 of 9	100%
Tommy McMillen	10 of 11	90.9%
Jean Silva	15 of 17	88.2%
Jose Miguel Delgado	10 of 12	83.3%

McMillen and Rahiki alone bring a combined 20-0 record into the same cage with 19 finishes across those 20 wins. UFC’s own preview calls the pair two of the hottest prospects in the featherweight division.

Star Power and Rankings Are What Hold the Score Down

Star Power scores 72 and carries the heaviest weight in the system at 25%. The supporting cast is stronger than a normal Fight Night. Moreno is a two-time UFC flyweight champion. Grasso is a former women’s flyweight champion. Jean Silva is a ranked featherweight contender and one of the more recognizable rising names at 145. What the card does not have is a headliner in the drawing class of a McGregor, a Topuria or a Pereira, and Jose Miguel Delgado has not yet built that kind of pull.

Rankings and Championship Fights scores 68, and the reason is simple: there are zero title fights. Divisional relevance is real, with ranked fighters across flyweight, women’s flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight and heavyweight, but a card with no belt cannot reach the top of this category no matter how deep the rankings run.

Fiorot vs. Grasso carries the most weight here. With Valentina Shevchenko expected out for an extended period and Natalia Silva vs. Wang Cong set to decide the vacant women’s flyweight title at UFC 332, the winner in Glendale has a strong case for the next shot.

Fan Heat and Location

Fan Heat scores 66 and is provisional. The positive signals are there. The UFC forecast strong demand, built a full fan-experience schedule around Glendale, and is running the fourth edition of an established franchise. Two things push against it: the original headliner falling out weakened the top of the card, and the early start time keeps it out of a direct collision with a major boxing card the same weekend.

Location scores 77. Desert Diamond Arena seats roughly 18,000 in a strong combat-sports market. It is not Madison Square Garden, T-Mobile Arena or a stadium show, which caps the category, but it carries real history for this card. The building was called Gila River Arena in 2021, when Moreno submitted Deiveson Figueiredo there at UFC 263 to become the first Mexico-born UFC champion. It was renamed in 2022.