Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will makes its official pay-per-view (PPV) debut using the ESPN+ digital streaming service (details here) beginning with UFC 236: “Holloway vs. Poirier 2” event, taking place this Sat. night (April 13, 2019) inside State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Headlining the championship doubleheader is the interim lightweight title fight pitting Max Holloway against Dustin Poirier. “Blessed,” who currently holds the promotion’s featherweight strap, is jumping up to 155 pounds to avenge his 2012 loss to “The Diamond” (see it again here).
And become the next contender for the M.I.A. Khabib Nurmagomedov in the process.
In the UFC 236 co-main event, also contested for an interim title, top middleweight contenders, Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum, will collide for the substitute strap while Robert Whittaker recovers from his recent stomach surgery.
Watch both championship showdowns get the full “Countdown” treatment in the embedded video above and to check out the rest of the UFC 236 fight card and line up click here.