The UFC Abu Dhabi main event featured former middleweight king Robert Whittaker take on the always-entertaining Reinier de Ridder.

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Middleweight Sedriques Dumas is set to collide with Texan knockout artist Zachary Reese at Noche UFC 3 on Sat., Sept. 14, 2025, which goes down inside Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Two months after being arrested,

UFC 33 remains a standard by which all other Ultimate Fighting Championship events are judged in terms of ineptitude.

CEO Dana White said over the weekend that multiple fighters are in line to be on the list for a faceoff expected next year on the White House South Lawn.

Las Vegas-based United Fight Championship hired Francisco Arias this month from Fifth Season, a Los Angeles-based film and TV production company, where he'd been legal chief since 2022.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has appointed veteran media industry attorney Francisco Arias II its new general counsel, succeeding Riché McKnight, who earlier this year took over as chief legal officer for parent company TKO Group Holdings Inc.

Newly appointed undisputed Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall will make his first defense against Ciryl Gane on Sat., Oct. 25, 2025, at UFC 321, which goes down inside Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE