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What time and channel is the UFC on tonight? Fight Island card and more as Rhys McKee makes his debut

The UFC hosts its final event on Fight Island this weekend as Co Antrim native Rhys McKee makes his debut in the promotion.

The Ballymena man takes on Khamzat Chimaev, who only fought ten days ago, on a stacked card in Abu Dhabi.

New Zealand-born Australian Robert Whittaker faces Liverpool's Darren Till in the main event.

Here's everything you need to know about UFC Fight Night 174:

Where and when is it?

The event takes place in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Sunday morning, July 26.

What time does it start?

The pre-lims start at 11pm on Saturday, with the main card scheduled to get underway at 1am Sunday Irish time.

Robert Whittaker and Darren Till (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

What channel is it on?

BT Sport 2 will show all the action live.

Fight card

Main card

Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till

Mauricio Rua vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Fabricio Werdum vs. Alexander Gustafsson

Carla Esparza vs. Marina Rodriguez

Paul Craig vs. Gadzhimurad Antigulov

Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta

Khamzat Chimaev vs. Rhys McKee

Rhys McKee (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Pre-lims

Francisco Trinaldo vs. Jai Herbert

Nicolas Dalby vs. Jesse Ronson

Tom Aspinall vs. Jake Collier

Movsar Evloev vs. Mike Grundy

Tanner Boser vs. Raphael Pessoa Nunes

Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad

Ramazan Emeev vs. Niklas Stolze

Nathaniel Wood vs. John Castaneda

Quotes corner

Rhys McKee: “Khamzat is unbeaten, there’s a massive hype train behind him and he’s no joke.

“I’ll be the underdog – apparently – but I thrive on that. I have absolutely nothing to lose and the man who has nothing to lose is dangerous.

“I’m not here to make up the numbers on a fight card. I’m here to get a win. It’s a chance for me to make history and really let people know who Rhys McKee is.”

Darren Till: “I don’t ever imagine him knocking me out. That’s it. I imagine myself knocking him out hopefully.”

Robert Whittaker: “His biggest threat is his left hand and he knows that as well.

“That’s where I think I match up so much better against him than he does with me because my biggest threat is too many of them.

"I have so many dangerous shots, I’m so creative. I have so many angles I can exploit. He’s got his left hand. That’s all he’s got. Everything else I got covered."

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