The first clash between Dustin Poirier and Eddie Alvarez ended in controversy when they met 14 months ago. On Saturday at UFC on Fox 30 in Calgary, Alberta, Poirier gained revenge and resolution with a brutal second-round knockout. Yet, despite a definitive ending to their rematch, the controversy only intensified.
While the fantastic Ultimate Fighting Championship offering was more than an appropriate peacemaker to the Stampede City -- a promise UFC President Dana White had been making for six years after Calgary’s historically dreadful UFC 149 card -- the cluster-you-know-what in the main event more than certainly raises some questions from which we can learn.