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Regardless of whether ESPN+ happened to disappoint you on Saturday, the same cannot be said of UFC 236 in Atlanta, which delivered the best back-to-back fights in history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and perhaps in all of MMA. Safe to say, we all learned a thing or two … or five.
UFC 236 saw Dustin Poirier finally claim a slice of the lightweight title in a five-round war with featherweight champion Max Holloway, only marginally outdone by the bout that proceeded it, the best fight of 2019 so far, which saw Israel Adesanya validate his hype in a violent, pitched 25-minute battle with Kelvin Gastelum that brought him the UFC interim middleweight title.