UFC on ESPN 16, also known as UFC Fight Island 4, and UFC on ESPN: Holm vs. Aldana, will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2020 at the Flash Forum on Fight Island, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The weigh-ins will be held on Friday, October 2, and you can watch live on The UnderGround at 9:00 a.m. ET, as all 22 fighters step onto the scale. All fights, including the main event, will be afforded the non-title grace pound. In the main event, former women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, currently ranked #2 in the division and #8 for women in the pound for pound rankings, will fight #6 ranked Irene Aldana. Also on the card, Germaine De Randamie, currently ranked #1 contender in the division and #9 in the women’s P4P rankings, will fight Julianna Pena, who is ranked #4 in the division, and #14 in in the women’s P4P.

There is a seeming anomaly in rankings between Holm and De Randamie. At 135, De Randamie is #1 and Holm is #2, while in the overall, women’s P4P rankings, Holm is #8 and GDR is #9. That is because the rankings within the division are based on the results of actual fights, where as the P4P rankings are a more speculative determination of who is better.

This is the weigh=ins live stream, courtesy of MMA Fighting:

These are the results:

Main Card (ESPN+, 10:30 p.m. ET)

Holly Holm (136) vs. Irene Aldana (136)
Yorgan De Castro (261) vs. Carlos Felipe (263)
Germaine de Randamie (136) vs. Julianna Pena (135.5)
Kyler Phillips (136) vs. Cameron Else (136)
Dequan Townsend (186) vs. Dusko Todorovic (186)

Prelim Card (ESPN+, 7:30 p.m. ET)

Carlos Condit (171) vs. Court McGee (170.5)
Charles Jourdain (145) vs. Joshua Culibao (145.5)
Jordan Williams (182) vs. Nassourdine Imavov (185.5)
Loma Lookboonmee (116) vs. Jinh Yu Frey (116)
Casey Kenney (136) vs. Alateng Heili (136)
Luigi Vendramini (156) vs. Jessin Ayari (156)

This is the fighter faceoffs:

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