UFC 236 main event breakdown: Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier

Esther Lin, MMA FightingIt is difficult to imagine that over the course of 2019, the UFC will find a main event that creates the anticipation of a jaw-dropping, breath-stopping, highlight-making action fight in the way that Saturday night’s main event does. The UFC 236 headliner, pitting longtime featherweight champion Max Holloway against No. 3 lightweight Dustin Poirier for the lightweight interim championship, does not make a lot of sense as a pairing, yet most fight fans are thrilled at the prospect of two of the most offensively gifted fighters in the sport pairing off in their respective primes.

This will not be their first meeting; the two locked horns at UFC 143 back in 2012. At the…