The moment Dana White announced that Max Holloway would be fighting Dustin Poirier for the interim UFC lightweight title, voices of anticipation and dread filled the air.
Holloway had a deserved case as the sport’s best fighter, and Poirier had been chipping away at the lightweight elite repeatedly and violently. Pitting the two against each other would undoubtedly be a phenomenal contest, but to see these two beloved fighters set against one another would likely lead to heartbreak. To see either man fall short in such a pivotal contest would be a crying shame.