Paul Hughes is the new face of Irish MMA, and his homecoming bout in Belfast on May 10 has generated the local fan interest to prove it.

Paul Hughes’s opponent at PFL Belfast has been named, as the Northern Irishman takes on Bruno Miranda in a bid to set up a rematch with Usman Nurmagomedov. In January, Hughes suffered a controversial majority-decision loss to Nurmagomedov, who retained the PFL lightweight title and remained unbeaten.