The UFC returns on Saturday with another card from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi, with ranked middleweight contenders Robert Whittaker and Darren Till facing off in the main event on ESPN.
Whittaker, a former UFC Middleweight Champion, lost his belt in his last fight to Israel Adesanya at UFC 243 last October in his home country of Australia. Whittaker was scheduled to return to the octagon in March at UFC 248, but pulled out before the event.
Darren Till is 2-2 in his last four fights, with losses to Tyron Woodley and Jorge Masvidal, but is coming off a win over Kelvin Gastelum last November.
Saturday’s UFC event will be free to watch on ESPN, and the main card features seven fights.
Main card (8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Middleweight: Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till
Light Heavyweight: Mauricio Rua vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Heavyweight: Fabricio Werdum vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Women’s Strawweight: Carla Esparza vs. Marina Rodriguez
Light Heavyweight: Paul Craig vs. Gadzhimurad Antigulov
Welterweight: Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta
Welterweight: Khamzat Chimaev vs. Rhys McKee
Prelim card (5:00 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Lightweight: Francisco Trinaldo vs. Jai Herbert
Welterweight: Nicolas Dalby vs. Jesse Ronson
Heavyweight: Tom Aspinall vs. Jake Collier
Featherweight: Movsar Evloev vs. Mike Grundy
Heavyweight: Tanner Boser vs. Raphael Pessoa Nunes
Women’s Bantamweight: Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad
Welterweight: Ramazan Emeev vs. Niklas Stolze
Bantamweight: Nathaniel Wood vs. John Castaneda
