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Robert Whittaker got $21,000 compares to Reinier de Ridder's $4,500 in Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay at UFC Abu Dhabi.

In a 3-round middleweight bout on the main card, Shara Magomedov and Marc-Andre Barriault meet Saturday at UFC on ABC 9 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.

On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky. Brandon and Dan discuss a wide range of topics including staying at ESPN and whether or not he considered leaving,

ESPN programming is seeing a viewership increase through the first half of the year, with the flagship cable network up 4% in total-day audience and 9% in primetime. When sports on ABC are factored in,

The full UFC on ABC 9 weigh-in results include: MAIN CARD (ABC, ESPN+, 3 p.m. ET) Robert Whittaker (185.5) vs. Reinier de Ridder (186) Petr Yan (135.5) vs. Marcus McGhee (136) Shara Magomedov (186) vs. Marc-Andre Barriault (185) Asu Almabayev (126) vs. Jose Ochoa (125.5)

The then-up-and-coming ESPN paid a now-quaint $51 million per season to the NFL for the three-year package, and it changed the trajectory of what became arguably the most powerful sports media company of all time. ESPN was built on a lot of things, but the most notable was its nearly four-decade relationship with the league.