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Events · UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier
From the tape · 13 Apr 2019

Max Holloway vs Dustin Poirier

UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Dustin Poirier beat Max Holloway

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Lightweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Blake Grice

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DustinPoirier“The Diamond”American Top Team · Carencro, Louisiana
Interim Lightweight Title5 rounds13 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 13-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 16 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
30-10
−3 yr27
Age
30
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
19
UFC bouts
+221
11/1669% of wins
Finishes
11/1669% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Carencro, Louisiana
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Max Holloway30 sig landed
HEAD93%28 of 69BODY7%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Dustin Poirier54 sig landed
HEAD85%46 of 105BODY11%6 of 8LEGS4%2 of 2
30 of 72
Sig.
strikes
54 of 115
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway32 sig landed
HEAD62%20 of 68BODY38%12 of 21LEGS0%0 landed
Dustin Poirier31 sig landed
HEAD94%29 of 70BODY3%1 of 2LEGS3%1 of 2
32 of 89
Sig.
strikes
31 of 74
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway53 sig landed
HEAD83%44 of 102BODY15%8 of 8LEGS2%1 of 1
Dustin Poirier33 sig landed
HEAD82%27 of 61BODY12%4 of 5LEGS6%2 of 2
53 of 111
Sig.
strikes
33 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:53
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 45Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Max Holloway42 sig landed
HEAD76%32 of 78BODY24%10 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Dustin Poirier34 sig landed
HEAD85%29 of 58BODY12%4 of 5LEGS3%1 of 1
42 of 89
Sig.
strikes
34 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:03
Control
1:30
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 38Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 77BODY29%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Dustin Poirier26 sig landed
HEAD85%22 of 55BODY12%3 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
24 of 85
Sig.
strikes
26 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
1:12
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Blake Grice
Max HollowayDustin Poirier
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–49
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide46–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 23 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com45–49
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com46–49
Mike Straus MMAJA46–49
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com46–49
Greg Rosenstein ESPN.com46–49
Combat Press.com46–48
MM AMania.com46–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–48
John Pollock POST Wrestling46–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com47–48
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com47–48
Adam Martin Sherdog.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com47–48
Keith Shillan FanSided.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Poirier · 38%48-47 Holloway · 18%49-46 Poirier · 17%48-46 Poirier · 7%49-45 Poirier · 5%

1,701 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.15 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.29 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
35%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Dustin Poirier

1.15takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Max Holloway↑ +1.0pp
open 65.3%close 66.3%
Dustin Poirier↓ −1.0pp
open 34.7%close 33.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 65.3% and closed at 66.3% (+1.0pp), with Dustin Poirier moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Max Holloway-230-22365.3%66.3%+1.0pp
Dustin Poirier17018534.7%33.7%−1.0pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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