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27th October 2016
06:27pm BST

The only remaining fighters who will specifically appeal to the Irish crowd at UFC Belfast will be Neil Seery, who bizarrely isn't even on the main card, and Artem Lobov.
That's it! Unlike the now legendary UFC Fight Night 46 in Dublin, which was packed with Irish fighters, there will be vast gaps in the action during which casual Irish fans won't really have any vested interest in the goings-on in the Octagon.
BAMMA/Bellator on the other hand is chock-full of local talent.
BAMMA 27, which will play out in full before the main card of Bellator 169, will showcase the talents of SBG stand-out Dylan Tuke, as well as Kiefer Crosbie, Brian Moore and Alan Philpott.
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Our sources indicate that Chris Fields and Ryan Curtis will also be playing some part on the BAMMA card, while a whopper of a women's bout is expected to be confirmed sooner rather than later.
Team Ryano's Paul Redmond will make his Bellator debut against the aforementioned Weichel while the crowd will be at its loudest when the undefeated James Gallagher takes to the cage in the evening's co-main event.
The best of the best of Ireland's mixed martial artists who are not signed to the UFC will be in Dublin in December and you'd expect a few of them to be pushing for an Octagon debut in the not-so-distant future.
BAMMA/Bellator will also bring something a little bit different to the table in terms of production value.
In recent years, Bellator has gone down the route of extravagant, professional wrestling style staging to add an extra dimension to fight fans' experience of live events.
And while there's always the danger that that can cross over into tackiness, it's definitely worth experiencing once and from what we hear, BAMMA will also be incorporating the Bellator production for the duration of their card.
The UFC, on the other hand, has somewhat fallen into the bad habit of becoming rather samey in how they showcase their product.
All fight posters are almost identical and the Reebok gear means it is unnecessarily difficult for fighters to express their personalities unless they have a microphone in front of their face.
2016 will go down as the most important year in the history of mixed martial arts as fighters have become more aware of what they are really worth due in no small part to the WME-IMG takeover of the UFC.
The Bellator acquisitions of Rory MacDonald and Benson Henderson proved that the UFC is no longer the only place for elite fighters to earn a living and other organisations are going to continue becoming more competitive as the sport of MMA carries on burrowing into the mainstream.
Fight fans are going to become more interested in grassroots MMA and it's only right that young up-and-coming, homegrown fighters are shown support because the Conor McGregors and Ronda Rouseys of the world have to start somewhere.
If you can afford to go to both UFC Belfast and BAMMA/Bellator then by all means have your fill.
But if one is all you can manage then consider the possibility that it's more important to offer your backing to the Irish superstars of the future than to witness a card that's, let's be honest, not up to scratch.
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