UFC 236 with be a double interim title fight extravaganza, and neither welterweight champion Tyron Woodley nor Ben Askren can really understand why. The April 13 pay-per-view event in Atlanta is set to be headlined by an interim lightweight fight between current featherweight champ Max Holloway and actual 155-pound contender Dustin Poirier . And in the co-headliner, Israel Adesanya meets Kelvin Gastelum for the interim middleweight title. All this while lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov serves a nine-month suspension for his role in the UFC 229 brawl and middleweight champ Robert Whittaker recovers from surgery on a collapsed bowel
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