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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – If you struggled with much less MMA than normal a few weeks back, don’t worry – Saturday brings you an abundance of fights.
The UFC has two events on the same day on two different continents. Ahead of Saturday night’s UFC Fight Night 100 event in Sao Paulo, UFC Fight Night 99 goes down in Northern Ireland. Today, the fighters on the main card and the featured prelim met with the media and got face to face for the first time this week.
UFC Fight Night 99 takes place Saturday at SSE Arena Belfast in Belfast.The entire event streams on UFC Fight Pass.
In the main event, Uriah Hall (12-7 MMA, 5-5 UFC) rematches Gegard Mousasi (40-6-2 MMA, 7-3 UFC) in a middleweight bout. Mousasi will be looking to avenge an upset knockout loss to Hall that took place a little more than a year ago in Japan. In the co-feature, lightweight Ross Pearson (19-12 MMA, 11-9 UFC) takes on Steven Ray (19-6 MMA, 3-1 UFC) in a battle of England vs. Scotland.
Also on the main card, Timothy Johnson (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) fights former Bellator heavyweight champion Alexander Volkov (26-6 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who makes his UFC debut. And Teruto Ishihara (9-2-2 MMA, 2-0-1 UFC) takes on Conor McGregor teammate Artem Lobov (12-12-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC) at featherweight. To close out the prelims, Ian McCall (13-5-1 MMA, 2-3-1 UFC) fights Neil Seery (16-12 MMA, 3-3 UFC) at bantamweight.
Check out the video of today’s media day face-offs above.
And for more on UFC Fight Night 99, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.