There could not have been a tougher act to follow than Adesanya vs Gastelum, but Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway rose to the occasion in the way that only the two of them can, leaving the arena with Fight of the Night honors.
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“When you fight a guy who throws volume like that and you try to match his volume and disrupt his timing…I knew the workload was going to be a lot,” Poirier would say later. He was right. Between the two of them, they landed more than 350 significant strikes. Holloway got touched more times than at any point in his career, but left the Octagon that night without ever having been knocked down.
