Gallery Photos: Best of Max Holloway view 123 images The MMA community was largely caught off guard on Friday when the UFC booked an interim lightweight title bout for UFC 236 between Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier. After Poirier (24-5 MMA, 16-4 UFC) beat Holloway (20-4 MMA, 16-4 UFC) at UFC 143 in February 2012, the pair will run it back on April 13 in Atlanta. Holloway, the current UFC featherweight champ, will move up a division to fight Poirier for the interim belt while champ Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0 MMA, 11-0 UFC) sits on the sidelines for the majority of the year.
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