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It’s one thing to dream up the idea of UFC Fight Island. It’s quite another to actually build out the infrastructure at a real location. Yet that’s exactly what happened in Abu Dhabi, and now the world’s top MMA promotional company is headed to the United Arab Emirates for the entire month of July to put on some of the biggest fights of the year.
Watch the video below for an inside look at how Abu Dhabi turned UFC’s Fight Island dreams into a reality.
Upcoming UFC Fight Island Cards in Abu Dhabi Include UFC 251
The first card set to take place on Fight Island will be UFC 251 on July 11. That huge UFC pay-per-view card features UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman taking on surging contender Gilbert Burns in the main event as well as two other UFC title fights.
The next card on Fight Island will be the UFC Fight Night card on July 15 featuring rising featherweight contenders Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige in an important divisional matchup.
The third UFC Fight Island card is the UFC Fight Night card on July 18 headlined by a flyweight title rematch between Deiveson Figueiredo and Joseph Benavidez.
Finally, the fourth Fight Island card is the UFC Fight Night event on July 25 featuring former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till.
The full cards are listed below.
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UFC 251: Usman vs. Burns on July 11
Main Card
Kamaru Usman vs. Gilbert Burns – Main Event, Welterweight Title Bout
Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway – Featherweight Title Bout, Co-Main Event
Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo – Bantamweight Title Bout
Jessica Andrade vs. Rose Namajunas
Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant
Prelims
Volkan Oezdemir vs. Jiri Prochazka
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs. Muslim Salikhov
Makwan Amirkhani vs. Dan Henry
Leonardo Santos vs. Roman Bogatov
Early Prelims
Marcin Tybura vs. Alexander Romanov
Raulian Paiva vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov
Karol Rosa vs. Vanessa Melo
Martin Day vs. Davey Grant
Amanda Ribas vs. Paige VanZant
UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige on July 15
Main Card
Calvin Kattar vs. Dan Ige – Main Event
Frankie Edgar vs. Pedro Munhoz – Co-Main Event
Carla Esparza vs. Marina Rodriguez
Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Mounir Lazzez
Jared Gordon vs. Chris Fishgold
Prelims
Modestas Bukauskas vs. Vinicius Moreira
Molly McCann vs. Taila Santos
Ricardo Ramos vs. Lerone Murphy
John Phillips vs. Dusko Todorovic
Tim Elliott vs. Ryan Benoit
Diana Belbita vs. Liana Jojua
TBD vs. TBD
UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs Benavidez 2 on July 18
Main Card
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez – Main Event, Flyweight Title Bout
Jack Hermansson vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Marc Diakiese vs. Rafael Fiziev
Ariane Lipski vs. Luana Carolina
Alexandre Pantoja vs. Askar Askarov
Prelims
Roman Dolidze vs. Khadis Ibragimov
Grant Dawson vs. Nad Narimani
Joe Duffy vs. Joel Alvarez
Brett Johns vs. Montel Jackson
Tagir Ulanbekov vs. Alexander Doskalchuk
Davi Ramos vs. Arman Tsarukyan
Carlos Felipe vs. Serghei Spivac
UFC Fight Night: Whitaker vs. Till on July 25
Main Card
Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till – Main Event
Shogun Rua vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira – Co-Main Event
Alex Oliveira vs. Peter Sobotta
Fabricio Werdum vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Danny Roberts vs. Nicolas Dalby
Prelims
Tom Aspinall vs. Jake Collier
Justin Tafa vs. Raphael Pessoa
Movsar Evloev vs. Mike Grundy
Bethe Correia vs. Pannie Kianzad
Nathaniel Wood vs. Umar Nurmagomedov
Ramazan Emeev vs. Shavkat Rakhmonov
TBD vs. TBD
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