Discover why Abu Dhabi has become a key location for UFC events, highlighting thrilling fights, influential partnerships, and the city's strategic growth in sports.

This is the UFC Abu Dhabi live blog for Petr Yan vs. Marcus McGhee, the co-main event bantamweight bout Saturday at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Currently No. at 135 pounds in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings,

In his first post to Instagram after his victory, Mitchell shared a video to his story in which he re-worded Islam Makhachev’s most notorious catchphrase. The pound-for-pound great famously told Daniel Cormier to send his son to Russia on his own, saying “Send him 2-3 years Dagestan and forget.”

Mohammed Yahya suffers suspected orbital fracture and swelling after brutal blow at UFC Abu Dhabi, raising concerns over recovery timeline.

The full UFC on ABC 9 weigh-in results include: MAIN CARD (ABC, ESPN+, 3 p.m. ET) Shara Magomedov (186) vs. Marc-Andre Barriault (185) Asu Almabayev (126) vs. Jose Ochoa (125.5) Bryce Mitchell (136) vs. Said Nurmagomedov (136) Ibo Aslan (204) vs. Billy Elekana (204.5)

Grappling champion Marcus Buchecha struggled mightily in his octagon debut before coming up short with Martin Buday claiming a unanimous decision win to kick off the UFC Abu Dhabi card on Saturday.

Muslim Salikhov stuns Carlos Leal with a 42-second KO at UFC Abu Dhabi and calls out Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson.