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UFC on ESPN: Poirier vs Hooker complete preliminary card preview

The final UFC show before the Yas Isl— sorry, Fight Island shows take place, and the Apex has a purely stay-busy action card headlined by the only fight between ranked opponents. All of these are fights between people that are mostly there on the roster with no major consequence for most of these bouts, win or lose.

Does that make this a bad thing? No, but if you know enough to not expect star power and wild action on a certain kind of standard Fight Night card, this will be no different. The point here is keeping people active to see who rises and falls in their respective division, even if most of the participants are well enough outside of the top 15 in their classes.