Good morning and welcome to the Evening Standard's LIVE coverage of UFC 251.
Fight Island is here with Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal headlining a stacked card with welterweight title one of three belts on the line in the coming hours.
It is going to be a busy night from Yas Island in Abu Dhabi - stick with us all for all the action.
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- Volkanovski retains featherweight title against Holloway
- Yan new bantamweight champ after beating Aldo
- Namajunas beats Andrade via split decision
- Ribas stuns VanZant with first round win
UFC 251 TV channel and live stream
BT Sport 1 will have live coverage of all the action from the prelims to the main event.
BT Sport subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the video player and the BT Sport app.
UK start time and venue
The prelim show is set for a 1am start in the early hours of Sunday July 11 with the main card to get underway at 3am.
Ringwalks for Usman vs Masvidal are expected no earlier than 4:30m.
Abu Dhabi's Yas Island hosts the action this weekend - the first of four cards at the state-of-the-art venue.
Card in full
Main card: From 3am
Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal (UFC welterweight title)
Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway (UFC featherweight title)
Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo (vacant UFC bantamweight title)
Rose Namajunas vs Jessica Andrade 2 (women's strawweight)
Paige VanZant vs Amanda Ribas (women's flyweight)
Prelims: From 1am
Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka (light heavyweight)
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Muslim Salikhov (welterweight)
Makwan Amirkhani vs Danny Henry (featherweight)
Leonardo Santos vs Roman Bogatov (lightweight)
Early prelims: From 11:30pm
Marcin Tybura vs Alexander Romanov (heavyweight)
Raulian Paiva vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov (flyweight)
Karol Rosa vs Vanessa Melo (Women's bantamweight)
Davey Grant vs Martin Day (bantamweight)
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