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“Fight Island” is real, and now the four cards that will take place there are real, as well.

UFC president Dana White today announced the complete lineup for the four cards that will take place next month in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The unique setup has been necessitated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has made it difficult to get international fighters into the U.S. to compete.

“I think this is going to be a really unique experience, not just for the fighters, but for us,” UFC president Dana White said during the announcement. “It’s going to be cool. It’s going to be something different. It’s never been done before, and however long this thing goes on, and however long it’s hard to get people in from other countries, we will have these fights at ‘Fight Island’ – Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.”

First up, it’s UFC 251 on July 11, which features a trio of title fights.

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

• Champ [autotag]Kamaru Usman[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Gilbert Burns[/autotag] – for welterweight title
• Champ [autotag]Alexander Volkanovski[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Max Holloway[/autotag] – for featherweight title
• [autotag]Petr Yan[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jose Aldo[/autotag] – for vacant bantamweight title
• [autotag]Jessica Andrade[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Rose Namajunas[/autotag]
• [autotag]Amanda Ribas[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Paige VanZant[/autotag]

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)

• [autotag]Volkan Oezdemir[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jiri Prochazka[/autotag]
• [autotag]Muslim Salikhov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos[/autotag]
• [autotag]Makwan Amirkhani[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Danny Henry[/autotag]
• [autotag]Roman Bogatov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Leonardo Santos[/autotag]

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 6:15 p.m. ET)

• [autotag]Alexander Romanov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Marcin Tybura[/autotag]
• [autotag]Raulian Paiva[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Zhalgas Zhumagulov[/autotag]
• [autotag]Vanessa Melo[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Karol Rosa[/autotag]
• [autotag]Martin Day[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Davey Grant[/autotag]

The promotion then returns on July 15 with an event headlined by featherweight contenders [autotag]Calvin Kattar[/autotag] (21-4 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and [autotag]Dan Ige[/autotag] (14-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC).

The complete lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (10 p.m. ET)

• Calvin Kattar vs. Dan Ige
• [autotag]Frankie Edgar[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Pedro Munhoz[/autotag]
• [autotag]Carla Esparza[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Marina Rodriguez[/autotag]
• [autotag]Abdul Razak Alhassan[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mounir Lazzez[/autotag]
• [autotag]Chris Fishgold[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jared Gordon[/autotag]

PRELIMINARY (7 p.m. ET)

• [autotag]Modestas Bukauskas[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Vinicius Moreira[/autotag]
• [autotag]Molly McCann[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Taila Santos[/autotag]
• [autotag]Lerone Murphy[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ricardo Ramos[/autotag]
• [autotag]John Phillips[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Dusko Todorovic[/autotag]
• [autotag]Ryan Benoit[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Tim Elliott[/autotag]
• [autotag]Diana Belbita[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Liana Jojua[/autotag]

Three days later, on July 18, the promotion hosts its third card in eight days, when top flyweight contenders [autotag]Deiveson Figueiredo[/autotag] (18-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) and [autotag]Joseph Benavidez[/autotag] (28-6 MMA, 15-4 UFC) meet for a second time with the vacant UFC flyweight title on the line.

The full card includes:

MAIN CARD (9 p.m. ET)

• Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez – for vacant flyweight title
• [autotag]Kelvin Gastelum[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jack Hermansson[/autotag]
• [autotag]Marc Diakiese[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Rafael Fiziev[/autotag]
• [autotag]Luana Carolina[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ariane Lipski[/autotag]
• [autotag]Askar Askarov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Alexandre Pantoja[/autotag]

PRELIMINARY CARD (6 p.m. ET)

• [autotag]Roman Dolidze[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Khadis Ibragimov[/autotag]
• [autotag]Grant Dawson[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Nad Narimani[/autotag]
• [autotag]Joel Alvarez[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Joe Duffy[/autotag]
• [autotag]Montel Jackson[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Brett Johns[/autotag]
• [autotag]Aleksander Doskalchuk[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Tagir Ulanbekov[/autotag]
• [autotag]Davi Ramos[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Arman Tsarukyan[/autotag]
• [autotag]Carlos Felipe[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Serghei Spivac[/autotag]

Finally, the UFC’s run in Abu Dhabi ends on July 25 with a much-anticipated middleweight contest between former champion [autotag]Robert Whittaker[/autotag] (20-5 MMA, 11-3 UFC) and former welterweight title challenger [autotag]Darren Till[/autotag] (18-2-1 MMA, 6-2-1 UFC).

That night’s full lineup includes:

MAIN CARD

• Robert Whittaker vs. Darren Till
• [autotag]Antonio Rogerio Nogueira[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mauricio Rua[/autotag]
• [autotag]Alex Oliveira[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Peter Sobotta[/autotag]
• [autotag]Alexander Gustafsson[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Fabricio Werdum[/autotag]
• [autotag]Nicolas Dalby[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Danny Roberts[/autotag]

PRELIMINARY CARD

• [autotag]Tom Aspinall[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jake Collier[/autotag]
• [autotag]Raphael Pessoa[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Justin Tafa[/autotag]
• [autotag]Movsar Evloev[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mike Grundy[/autotag]
• [autotag]Bethe Correia[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Pannie Kianzad[/autotag]
• [autotag]Umar Nurmagomedov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Nathaniel Wood[/autotag]
• [autotag]Ramazan Emeev[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Shavkat Rakhmonov[/autotag]