UFC 236 takes place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night.
The main event features present featherweight champion Max Holloway carrying on Dustin Poirier for the UFC interim lightweight championship. The winner of the fight will in all likelihood proceed to confront Khabib Nurmagomedov, current champion.
The last time Max Holloway failed to receive his hand increased was back in April 2013 in UFC Fight Night 26 where he dropped a unanimous decision to Conor McGregor. Ever since then consecutive fights have been won by Holloway. His latest success was a fourth-round stoppage from Brian Ortega at UFC 231. Prior to the Ortega fight, Holloway completed all-time featherweight great Jose Aldo in back-to-back bouts. First at UFC 212 and again at UFC 218. Both finishes came in the third round. At twenty-seven decades of age, Holloway makes the walk for the moment. The born fighter has twelve wins through stoppage to go by choice along with eight.
Dustin Poirier is 4-0 over his last five fights with a no-contest because of an accidental knee to the head of a grounded fighter against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 211. However, Poirier won the rematch from Alvarez in his most recent fight at UFC on FOX 30. His few victories include Anthony Pettis, Justin Gaethje and Alvarez. All three ended inside the distance. Like Holloway, Poirier has also suffered a loss at the hands of Conor McGregor. Poirier’s loss proved to be a first-round knockout back in September of 2014 in UFC 178. Since then”The Diamond” is 8-1-1. The thirty-year-old is likely to produce the walk to the thirtieth time on Saturday night. Nineteen of his twenty five career wins ended inside the distance.
The co-main takes place in the middleweight division where Kelvin Gastelum squares off from Israel Adesanya for the UFC interim championship championship. The winner will face Robert Whittaker once the UFC middleweight champion is ready to come back from injury. Gastelum was set to face Whittaker for the name at UFC 234 but the champion was forced to pull out mere hours before the fight due to an abdominal hernia that required emergency surgery.
Since obtaining subbed from Chris Weidman in UFC on FOX 25 Gastelum has won his last 2 fights. He beat Michael Bisping via knockout at UFC Fight Night 122 and then won a split decision against Ronaldo Souza at UFC 224. The twenty-seven-year-old boasts ten endings in career victories that are fifteen.
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