Islam Makhachev makes the first defence of his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330 in Philadelphia on Saturday.

There’s also a title on the line in the co-main event when Mackenzie Dern defends her strawweight belt against Gillian Robertson.

Both fighters weighed 170lb (12st 2lb) for the contest, with Machado Garry telling booing fans they “should be grateful” about watching “two of the biggest fighters ever in this sport”.

Former lightweight world champion Makhachev is looking to break Anderson Silva’s record (16) for the longest win streak in UFC history.

The 34-year-old Russian described Machado Garry as his “next target” at the weigh-ins, before telling supporters he is “ready to make all people happy” with victory.

Machado Garry, 28, has won 10 of his 11 fights since making his UFC debut in 2021, with his sole loss coming against Shavkat Rakhmonov.

The Irishman, who holds an overall record of 17 wins and one defeat, is aiming to become just the second man to defeat pound-for-pound great Makhachev.

Can Makhachev make history by claiming a 17th successive win? Or will Machado Garry pull off an upset?

Derek McInnes – who took Hearts to the brink of the title only to lose out on the final day to Celtic – replaced Rohl.

After Thursday’s Europa League exit to Polish side Jagiellonia Bialystok, McInnes has now failed to win his opening four games.

Rohl, speaking before that defeat, says: “Consistency, this is the most important thing. The environment is really demanding.

“Everyone who goes there, it doesn’t matter if it’s a manager, a player, a staff member, you have to understand this club is demanding and this creates a lot of pressure on people to make the right decisions.

“Nobody can prepare [for] this step. I cannot speak for the new manager but you can’t prepare. You have to be there and if you are there, then you really feel what it means.”

Rohl is focused and settled in Austria, returning to Salzburg after starting his coaching career at RB Leipzig under Ralph Hassenhuttl, before following him to Southampton.

He joins with Salzburg having failed to lift the Austrian Bundesliga title for the past three seasons – after winning the previous 10 in a row. They finished third last season.

Rohl’s move to Austria continues his history of bold career choices.

“This is the main part of my character, be brave. In the last three years I always pushed the limit,” says Rohl, who describes saving Sheffield Wednesday from relegation in 2023-24 as a miracle.

“I want to win titles and, after the season, I will measure myself on this result.

“When you take over, the main part is winning titles, the cup and the league and in the last few years we couldn’t win this as a club, this is one big goal.

“The second is of course developing young players.”

Lucas Gourna-Douath is the latest, the midfielder close to joining Hull, but a recent list underlines the quality of the production line at Taxham.

Karim Adeyemi moved to Borussia Dortmund in 2022 and joined Barcelona this summer while Erling Haaland’s season at the club in 2019-20 gave him the platform to join Borussia Dortmund. Sadio Mane, Dayot Upamecano and Dominik Szoboszlai are all alumni.

Former Bayern Munich and Germany coach Rohl adds: “Ten years ago we were the model for other clubs and now you see more and more on the market have this multi-club ownership and this is also now a competition for us.

“I want to win titles, develop young players, be attractive and I want to bring Salzburg back into the light in Europe.”

Werro survived an almighty scare on Thursday when she suffered a nasty fall in her semi-final, before later being reinstated in the competition.

Recovering impressively both physically and mentally from that shock, she showed great maturity to hold off Hodgkinson in the tense closing stages – while breaking a championship record that had stood since 1982.

“I knew I could be European champion one day. I hope to be faster and faster next year,” Werro said.

“When I was a child, my dad used to tell me I have to be a lion. I shouldn’t be shy and let other athletes go past me, so I decided to do a celebration with that when I crossed the line.”

In claiming her first senior international title, Werro has proven she is ready to rival the Briton for the sport’s biggest prizes for years to come.

“Audrey Werro is still young and that was a huge amount of pressure, even without the fall and the bruising,” former marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe told BBC TV.

“She pulled it together and took the race by the scruff of the neck, which I think Keely did intend for her to do – but she thought she could come back at her.

“Werro just had another gear.”

Hodgkinson jokingly removed her medal in disgust when asked how she felt after the final.

Despite her disappointment, this was her 12th senior international medal and she continues to progress her times, lowering her personal best in all but her injury-devastated 2025 season across the past four years.

Hodgkinson has long maintained that she has felt the world record is within her reach.

Going forward, she will be aware that may soon be required just to win the titles she craves.