UFC 236 PREVIEW & PREDICTIONS 4/13: Grocke’s updated odds & predictions for every fight

UFC 236 Occurs in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night.

The main event features present featherweight champion Max Holloway taking on Dustin Poirier for your UFC interim lightweight tournament. The winner of the struggle will in all probability move on to confront current winner.
The last time Max Holloway failed to receive his hand raised was back in April 2013 in UFC Fight Night 26 at which he dropped a unanimous decision to Conor McGregor. Since that time consecutive fights have been won by Holloway. His latest victory was a fourth-round stoppage against Brian Ortega at UFC 231. Before this Ortega fight, Holloway finished all-time featherweight great Jose Aldo in back-to-back bouts. At UFC 212 and again at UFC 218. Both finishes came in the next round. At twenty-seven years old, Holloway creates the walk for the twenty-fourth time. The Hawaiian born fighter has twelve wins via stoppage to go along with eight.
Dustin Poirier is 4-0 over his last five fights with a no-contest due to an accidental knee into the head of a grounded fighter against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 211. However, Poirier won the rematch against Alvarez in his latest fight in UFC on FOX 30. His last few victories include Justin Gaethje, Alvarez and Anthony Pettis. All three ended inside the distance. Like Holloway, Poirier has also suffered a loss at the hands of Conor McGregor. The loss of poirier was a knockout back in September of 2014 in UFC 178. Since then”The Diamond” is 8-1-1. The thirty-year-old is likely to produce the walk for the thirtieth time on Saturday night. Nineteen of his twenty-four career wins finished inside the distance.
The co-main occurs at the middleweight division where Kelvin Gastelum squares off against Israel Adesanya for its UFC interim middleweight championship. The winner will face Robert Whittaker after the UFC middleweight champion is about to return from injury. Gastelum was set to face Whittaker for the title at UFC 234 but the winner was forced to pull out mere hours before the fight because of an abdominal hernia that required emergency operation.
Since getting subbed by Chris Weidman in UFC on FOX 25 Gastelum has won his last 2 fights. He beat Michael Bisping via knockout at UFC Fight Night 122 and then won a split decision against Ronaldo Souza in UFC 224. The twenty-seven-year-old boasts ten finishes in fifteen career successes.

Read more: montanayouthrugby.org