UFC star fuels Zuckerberg rumors (VIDEO)

This weekend's UFC event in Las Vegas will take place behind closed doors

This weekend's UFC fight card in Las Vegas will take place without fans or media, and headliner Mackenzie Dern claims this is because Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has “rented out” the entire venue – a suggestion which promotion chief Dana White has dismissed as “bulls**t.”

Dern is scheduled to headline the fight card opposite Chinese fighter Yan Xiaonan, but the bout will take place behind closed doors after it was revealed that neither the public nor the media will be permitted to attend.

No direct reason was given by the UFC and its president Dana White as to why the event, which is to take place at the organization's Apex Facility in Las Vegas, was to be closed off to the media, other than White joking that he was giving reporters “a night off.”

But speaking ahead of her fight, the 29-year-old Dern claimed that the decision was made at the request of Zuckerberg, who she says paid the UFC for what will effectively be his own live event.

now confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg has “rented out the event” but we don’t know how many people will be there