UFC 236 Occurs at the State Farm Arena at Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.
The main event features current featherweight champion Max Holloway carrying on Dustin Poirier for the UFC interim lightweight tournament. The winner of this fight will in all likelihood proceed to confront Khabib Nurmagomedov, current winner.
The final time Max Holloway failed to receive his hand raised was back in April 2013 at UFC Fight Night 26 where he dropped a unanimous decision to Conor McGregor. Since that time thirteen consecutive fights have been won by Holloway. His most recent victory was a stoppage against Brian Ortega at UFC 231. Before the Ortega fight, Holloway completed all-time featherweight great Jose Aldo in back-to-back bouts. First at UFC 212 and at UFC 218. Both finishes came in the third round. At twenty-seven decades of age, Holloway creates the walk for the time. The born fighter has twelve wins via stoppage to go along with eight by decision.
Dustin Poirier is 4-0 over his last five fights with a no-contest due to an accidental knee into the head of a grounded fighter against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 211. But, Poirier won the rematch from Alvarez in his most recent fight in UFC on FOX 30. His last few victories include Justin Gaethje, Alvarez and Anthony Pettis. All three finished inside the distance. Like Holloway, Poirier has also suffered a loss at the hands of Conor McGregor. Poirier’s loss proved to be a knockout back in September of 2014 at UFC 178. Since then”The Diamond” is 8-1-1. The thirty-year-old is likely to produce the walk for the thirtieth time on Saturday night. Nineteen of his twenty-four career wins finished inside the space.
The co-main takes place at the middleweight division where Kelvin Gastelum squares off against Israel Adesanya for its UFC interim championship championship. The winner will face Robert Whittaker once the UFC middleweight champion is about to return from injury. Gastelum was set to face Whittaker for the name at UFC 234 but the winner was made to pull out only hours before the fight because of an abdominal hernia which required emergency surgery.
Since getting subbed by Chris Weidman at UFC on FOX 25 Gastelum has won his last two fights. He beat Michael Bisping via knockout at UFC Fight Night 122 and then won a split decision against Ronaldo Souza in UFC 224. The twenty-seven-year-old boasts ten finishes in fifteen career victories.
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