An early backer of both Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann, Portnoy is hoping the Liverpool fighter overcomes Michael Chandler in the co-main tonight in what would be the biggest win of his career.

Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy is among the great and the good cageside tonight. Amanda Nunes and Alexandre Pantoja also watching on in Miami.

Mystic Mac is back with a prediction for the co-main event tonight – a cool half a million dollars and he’s betting on Michael Chandler to win by ‘brutal’ KO. Pimblett is yet to taste defeat since entering the UFC.

Hooper controlled Miller for 15 minutes in a bit of a dull one, he says: ‘I was hoping for a more exciting fight but Jim is so tough. I am here for finishes and sorry I didn’t do that for you guys, I got my paycheck for my wife and baby. Honestly I’m tired of beating up the old guys, I want to fight one of the younger 155ers on the come up next.’

Plenty of famous faces expected in the Miami crowd tonight, the president among them. Aljamain Sterling, former UFC bantamweight champ seems to be enjoying himself in his seat for the pre-lims.

The blonde locks of Pimblett have been tightly woven as usual and Lopes looks the part with his cowboy hat – the quartet of main and co-main fighters are in the building nice and early.

Julian Erosa kicked off the pre-lims with a first round win over Darren Elkins – an early up-kick changed the course of the fight and completely shook Elkins in that one.

Next up is Jim Miller, who is looking to add to his total of 27 UFC wins (the most ever), against young Chase Hooper, a 25-year-old baby-faced prospect who made his debut as a teenager.

Nora Comolle def. Hailey Cowan by first round submission

Marco Tulia def. Tresean Gore by second round TKO/KO

Su Mudaerji def. Mitch Raposo by decision

Michal Oleksiejczuk def. Sedriques Dumas by first round TKO/KO

They breed them tough in Australia, don’t they? I guess they have more than their share of crocodiles too but it’s the alligator that Volk fancies his chances against, probably tough to submit with a neck that size – do alligators have necks? Their whole body is kind of a neck. Not sure how we’ve gone this deranged this early in the night but it bodes well.

PRE-LIMS (first to last) –

Darren Elkins vs Julian Erosa

Jim Miller vs Chase Hooper

Yan Xiaonan vs Virna Jandiroba

MAIN CARD (first to last) –

Nikita Krylov vs Dominick Reyes

Bryce Mitchell vs Jean Silva

Yair Rodriguez vs Patricio Pitbull

Michael Chandler vs Paddy Pimblett

Alexander Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes

Volk, Lopes, Pimblett and Chandler – this should be an absolute belter tonight, so much so that Donald Trump is expected in the Kaseya Center in Miami in just under an hour. Keep it here for all the best of the undercard action before we dig into the main servings later…