UFC 236 ‘Holloway vs Poirier 2’ – Care/Don’t Care Preview

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson & John S. Nash, along with moderator Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for ‘Holloway vs Poirier 2’ on Saturday, April, 13th. It’s…

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson & John S. Nash, along with moderator Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for ‘Holloway vs Poirier 2’ on Saturday, April, 13th.

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the newly released OZY CONFIDENTIAL podcast, and co-host John S. Nash is back, the financials analyst of our Show Money Podcast, aka: the man who knows everything there is to know about the history of MMA. Eugene and John are joined by their astute moderator, Stephie Haynes of Bloody Elbow’s Level Change Podcast and the Mookie & Crookie Show.

The format of the show is to announce each fight as they go, commenting whether or not they care about it at all, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two. This week’s topics are as follows:

  • Bareknuckle FC discussion on promoter’s threats to take away half a fighter’s purse over a boring fight – 1:00
  • Bareknuckle FC discussion of the main event – 4:50
  • UFC 236 Preview – 12:18 (*timestamps for each bout can be found below in the fight card)
  • Thoughts on pro wrestling – 49:24
  • Eugene’s upcoming article – 55:41
  • Nash’s upcoming articles – 57:39

Here’s a look at the fight card as it stands now for the UFC 236 PPV, from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on Saturday, April 13th, via Tapology.com:

UFC 236 MAIN EVENT | 10PM/7PM ET/PT

Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier – 43:17
Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya – 41:04
Eryk Anders vs Khalil Rountree – 37:12
Alan Jouban vs Dwight Grant – 30:49
Nikita Krylov vs Ovince St. Preux – 27:16

PRELIMS ESPN | 8PM/5PM ET/PT

Jalin Turner vs Matt Frevola – 23:24
Wilson Reis vs Alexandre Pantoja – 20:52
Max Griffin vs Zelim Imadaev – 19:28
Boston Salmon vs Khalid Taha – 18:45

EARLY PRELIMS FIGHTPASS | 6:15PM/3:15PM ET/PT
Belal Muhammad vs Curtis Millender – 17:26
Montel Jackson vs Andre Soukhamthath – 14:15
Poliana Botelho vs Lauren Mueller – 13:19
Randy Costa vs Brandon Davis – 13:02

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Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSrobinson, follow Eugene, John and Stephie at the MMA Puncholes page on fb, John at @heynottheface, and Stephie can be followed @CrooklynMMA, @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod.

*Intro/Outro music has been provided by OxBow, starring Eugene S. Robinson.

The MMA Puncholes, Nate Wilcox, Alexei Auld, Eugene Robinson, John Nash, Stephie Haynes
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The MMA Puncholes, Nate Wilcox, Alexei Auld, Eugene Robinson, John Nash, Stephie Haynes