UFC decided ahead of Saturday's card at Madison Square Garden to ditch the ballyhooed new fight gloves unveiled in the spring designed in large part to stunt eye pokes that often render fighters unable to continue.

It's out with the new and in with the old – at least for now. Ahead of Saturday's UFC 309 card at Madison Square Garden in New York, competing fighters and their teams were notified the old-style gloves will be used rather than the new-style ones that

The UFC will go back to using its older fighter gloves just six months after introducing a new version designed to minimize eye pokes.

Fighters will revert to wearing the original style of gloves at UFC 309 in New York this Saturday rather than the new design introduced in June, the UFC confirms.

Fighters competing at UFC 309 are set to wear older versions of gloves, which were initially replaced by a new design that debuted back in June. No one was happier than heavyweight champion Jon Jones.