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UFC 271 card in full and UK start time for Israel Adesanya vs Robert Whitaker 2

The UFC returns this weekend with a stacked card as one of a number of events in the next weeks before the promotion comes to the UK at UFC London.

This weekend will see one of the pound-for-pound best fighters in mixed martial arts, Israel Adesanya, defending his middleweight title against Robert Whittaker.

Adesanya has blown through the middleweight division - with a 21-0 record before his only loss of his career coming at light heavyweight against Jan Blachowicz.

His rematch with Whittaker comes two years after their first, which saw Adesanya win via knockout in a stand-up slugfest.

Since that defeat, though, Whittaker has bounced back impressively.

The Australian has gone on a three match winning streak since then, defeating Liverpool's Darren Till, Jared Cannonier and Kelvin Gastelum.

Elsewhere on the card, we'll see two of the more explosive and unpredictable heavyweights in the division as Derrick Lewis faces Tai Tuivasa.

Here's all you need to know on who will figure on the card and what time it will start.

Who is on the card?

Main event

Israel Adesanya (c) vs Robert Whittaker

Derrick Lewis vs Tai Tuivasa

Jared Cannonier vs Derek Brunson

Kyler Phillips vs Marcelo Rojo

Bobby Green vs Nasrat Haqparast

Prelims

Andrei Arlovski vs Jared Vanderaa

Roxanne Modafferi vs Casey O'Neill

Alex Perez vs Matt Schnell

William Knight vs Maxim Grishin

UFC's number one commentary team of Jon Anik, Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier will be calling the fights.

What time will it start?

The preliminary show will get underway at 1am.

The main event will begin at 3am, which will also be shown on BT Sport 1.

Liverpool Echo Sport will be running a live blog throughout the event, bringing you all the updates from the fights including reaction and analysis.

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