The UFC generally has some sort of event at least once a month, but with football season around the corner in the United States, this Saturday night’s UFC 227 pay-per-view card from Los Angeles is perhaps the last big-time MMA card of the year to which casual bettors will pay attention.

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It is a very good card, although top heavy with the “little guys.” Let’s face it, the biggest stars in mixed martial arts or boxing are usually the bigger guys. Perhaps it’s hard for fight fans to relate to guys who weigh just 125 or 135 pounds battling it out in the ring or Octagon. Those fights also tend to have fewer highlight-reel knockouts.

The main event of UFC 227 is a bantamweight (135 pounds) rematch between champion TJ Dillashaw (15-3) and No. 1 contender Cody Garbrandt (11-1), with Dillashaw a very slight -120 favorite in the matchup of Americans. This will hardly be a tickle fight as the two waged a brutal battle in November at UFC 217. Garbrandt put Dillashaw on the canvas in the first round, but Dillashaw was the aggressor in Round 2 and finished Garbrandt by TKO (punches) at 2:41 of the round as Dillashaw became a two-time bantamweight titleholder.