UFC on Fox 29 doesn’t have a city or a venue yet, but it’s now got a main event and it’s a potential thriller.
Lightweights Justin Gaethje and Dustin Poirier will square off a five-round lightweight headliner for UFC on Fox 29. The promotion announced the fight on Monday evening. While the site for the event has yet to be determined, UFC on Fox 29 is scheduled for April 14.
After winning the World Series of Fighting lightweight crown and racking up a 17-0 record, the all-action Gaethje made his way to the UFC in 2017 and though he tasted his first pro career defeat, he did not disappoint: at “The Ultimate Fighter 26” Finale in July, the 29-year-old outlasted and halted Michael Johnson in the second round of Sherdog’s “Fight of the Year,” then returned at UFC 218, where he eventually succumbed to the strikes of Eddie Alvarez in perhaps the year’s second most exciting MMA bout.