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UFC Fight Night 50: Jacare vs. Mousasi was a mixed martial arts event held on September 5, 2014, at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.

UFC Fight Night 81: Dillashaw vs. Cruz was a mixed martial arts event held on January 17, 2016, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. A UFC Bantamweight Championship bout between defending champion T.J. Dillashaw and former WEC and UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz headlined this event.

UFC on Versus 4: Kongo vs. Barry was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 26, 2011, at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

UFC Fight Night 23: Fight for the Troops 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on January 22, 2011 at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas.

Juliana Velasquez vs. Denise Kielholtz (Flyweight) Tyrell Fortune vs. Matt Mitrione (Heavyweight) Matheus Mattos vs. Cee Jay Hamilton (Bantamweight) Arlene Blencowe vs. Dayana Silva (Featherweight) Johnny Eblen vs. Travis Davis (Middleweight)

Bellator 207: Mitrione vs. Bader took place on October 12, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event was live on Paramount Network. The event saw a semi-final round bout in the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix as Matt Mitrione takes on current Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion Ryan Bader. Erick Silva was expected to make his promotional debut at this event facing Lorenz Larkin in a Welterweight World Grand Prix alternate bout, but Silva pulled out due to injury. He was replaced by the Romanian fighter Ion Pascu.

The Ultimate Fighter China Finale: Kim vs. Hathaway was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event took place on March 1, 2014, at the CotaiArena in Macau, SAR, China. The event was headlined by a welterweight bout between John Hathaway and Dong Hyun Kim.

Bellator 180: Sonnen vs. Silva and Bellator 180 took place on June 24, 2017, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event aired both Spike TV and on PPV. A grudge match between rivals Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva served as the main event. The co-main event was a heavyweight bout between Fedor Emelianenko vs. Matt Mitrione. The pairing were supposed to meet at Bellator 172 but Mitrione had to be hospitalized due to kidney stones.

UFC on Fox 13: Dos Santos vs. Miocic was a mixed martial arts event held at U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 13, 2014. The fight card was headlined by a heavyweight bout between Junior dos Santos and Stipe Miocic.

UFC 137: Penn vs. Diaz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 29, 2011 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale was a mixed martial arts event that was held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 5, 2009. Featured was the final from The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights in the Heavyweight division (Roy Nelson vs. Brendan Schuab), and a match up between Matt Hamill and Jon Jones.

UFC 113: Machida vs. Shogun 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on May 8, 2010 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. UFC 113 featured the rematch between Lyoto Machida and Maurício Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. The two first met at UFC 104, where Lyoto Machida retained his belt in a controversial unanimous decision victory.

Bellator 225: Mitrione vs. Kharitonov 2 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on August 24, 2019 at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The event took place on Paramount Network and DAZN.

UFC Fight Night 68: Boetsch vs. Henderson was a mixed martial arts event held on June 6, 2015, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. A middleweight bout between Tim Boetsch and mixed martial arts legend Dan Henderson was the main event.

Submission Underground 8 took place Sunday, May 12, 2019 with 6 fights at Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon.

UFC 119: Mir vs. Cro Cop was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on September 25, 2010 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The event was the first that the UFC has hosted in Indiana.

Bellator 172: Fedor vs. Mitrione will air on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The event will air live in prime time on Spike TV. The event will be headlined by heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko against former UFC veteran Matt Mitrione. Emelianenko retired in 2012, but ultimately returned to the sport in 2015. This will be Emelianenko's first fight in the U.S. since 2011. Mitrione, a 38-year-old former NFL player has scored back-to-back knockout victories since joining Bellator over Carl Seumanutafa and Oli Thompson.

Bellator 194: Mitrione vs. Nelson 2 took place on February 16, 2018 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event aired live in prime time on Paramount Network. This card featured the second bout in the 2018 Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament. Matt Mitrione and Roy Nelson previously fought under the UFC banner in December 2012 with Nelson winning by TKO in the first round.

UFC 165: Jones vs. Gustafsson was a mixed martial arts event held on September 21, 2013, at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The main event was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame's Fight Wing in 2021.