Saturday’s UFC 236 event is in the books, and now that the dust has settled in Atlanta, it’s time to go to the scorecard to see who the big winners were at State Farm Arena.
A lot of us have been covering the career of Dustin Poirier for nearly 10 years. We’ve seen him as the fresh-faced kid in the WEC and the star of the acclaimed documentary Fightville, then as an always-evolving veteran, husband and father. In other words, after that long, objectivity tends to go out the window. So to see him finally get a world title belt around his waist was something none of us longtime scribes will forget.