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Chris Weidman hopes to prove he can still hang with the top at UFC 309. Weidman (16-7 MMA, 12-7 UFC) faces Eryk Anders (16-8 MMA, 8-8 UFC) in Saturday's prelims (pay-per-view, ESPNews/Hulu/FX, ESPN+) at Madison Square Garden in New York.

He did not love being bumped from the UFC 309 pay-per-view main card. “I was on pay-per-view up until, like a week ago, and then they took me off. I was honestly pissed off at first,” Weidman confided to The Post on Wednesday’s media day ahead of Saturday’s event at Madison Square Garden.

Eryk Anders prepares to face former champ Chris Weidman at UFC 309 and will do so with over a year since he stopped abusing drugs.