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It's time for fight night in Philly. More than seven years since UFC last touched down in the City of Brotherly Love, the promotion is back in town on Saturday with a pair of title fights atop the marquee for UFC 330.
Islam Makhachev looks to defend his welterweight title in the main event against Ian Machado Garry , while Mackenzie Dern will make the first defense of her women's strawweight championship when she faces Gillian Robertson in the co-main event.
Makhachev, the pupil of former lightweight champion and UFC Hall of Famer Khabib Nurmagomedov, has built one of the best resumes of the modern era. A win on Saturday not only marks the first defense of his second divisional title, but it would break the record for most consecutive UFC victories held by Anderson Silva at 16. The native of Dagestan has been a wrecking ball to the elite of the sport, taking out Alexander Volkanovski twice as well as Charles Oliveira. He earned the welterweight crown with a dominant showing against Jack Della Maddalena.
Garry burst onto the UFC scene in November 2021, winning eight consecutive fights to run his career record to 15-0. Garry then suffered the first loss of his professional career when he dropped a December 2024 decision to Shavkat Rakhmonov . Garry has since rebounded with a pair of wins to receive a shot at the belt.
Since a rocky 2-3 run, Dern has picked up three wins, most recently beating Virna Jandiroba in October 2025 to win the vacant belt. In Robertson, Dern faces a woman riding her own five-fight winning streak and a real threat to winning the belt.
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The undercard sees veteran Jalin Turner look to build off a first-round TKO last time out when he takes on rising prospect Kaue Fernandes at lightweight. Plus, middleweights collide when Mansur Abdul-Malik takes on Dustin Stoltzfus . And fireworks are expected in the main card opener when Esteban Ribovics battles veteran Edson Barboza .
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