UFC 236 Occurs in the State Farm Arena at Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.
The main event features current featherweight champion Max Holloway carrying on Dustin Poirier for your UFC interim lightweight championship. The winner of the fight will in all likelihood move on to face lightweight champion.
The final time Max Holloway failed to get his hands raised was back in April 2013 at UFC Fight Night 26 where he dropped a unanimous decision to Conor McGregor. Ever since then thirteen consecutive fights have been won by Holloway. His latest victory was a fourth-round stoppage from Brian Ortega at UFC 231. Before the Ortega fight, Holloway finished all-time featherweight great Jose Aldo in back-to-back bouts. At UFC 212 and again at UFC 218. Both ends came in the third round. At twenty-seven decades old, Holloway creates the walk to the twenty-fourth moment. The born fighter has twelve wins via stoppage to go along with eight.
Dustin Poirier is 4-0 over his last five fights with a no-contest due to 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 Alvarez, Justin Gaethje and Anthony Pettis. All three finished inside the space. Like Holloway, Poirier has also suffered a loss at the hands of Conor McGregor. The loss of poirier proved to be a first-round knockout back in September of 2014 at UFC 178. Since then»The Diamond» is 8-1-1. The thirty-year-old will make the walk to the thirtieth time on Saturday night. Nineteen of his career wins finished within the distance.
The co-main takes place at the middleweight division where Kelvin Gastelum squares off against Israel Adesanya for its UFC interim middleweight championship. The winner will face Robert Whittaker after the UFC middleweight champion is ready to return from injury. Gastelum was set to confront Whittaker for the title at UFC 234 but the winner was forced to pull out only hours before the fight due to an abdominal hernia which required emergency operation.
Since obtaining subbed from 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 at UFC 224. The twenty-seven-year-old boasts ten finishes in career victories that are fifteen.
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