The UFC’s first pay-per-view event of 2021 will deliver a huge rematch, as former interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier and former two-division champ Conor McGregor will go head to head at UFC 257 in a bout with major title implications in the UFC’s 155-pound division. The pair first clashed at UFC 178 in September 2014, where McGregor (22-4 MMA, 10-2 UFC) stunned Poirier (26-6 MMA, 18-5 UFC) early in the first round to claim a 106-second knockout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Since then, both men have evolved and developed into two of the best lightweight fighters on the planet. McGregor captured interim featherweight gold at UFC 189, then upgraded to the undisputed title with a stunning knockout of Jose Aldo at UFC 194. Then, at UFC 205, he became the UFC’s first simultaneous two-division champion – a “champ champ” – by finishing Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden
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