The UFC heads to pay-per-view for the fifth time this year with Saturday’s UFC 173 event, its annual Memorial Day weekend event, which takes place at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. Headlining the “Sin City” fight card is bantamweight champion Renan Barao (32-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC), who will become the first UFC titleholder to put his or her gold on the line twice in 2014 when he battles “The Ultimate Fighter 14” runner-up T.J. Dillashaw (9-2 MMA 5-2 UFC). Barao and Dillashaw were scheduled as the main event on short notice after the originally scheduled headliner of Chris Weidman vs. Lyoto Machida was pulled from the card. While the 135-pound title fight doesn’t have as much name value as its 185-pound counterpart, two of the world’s top athletes will still be in action.
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