The UFC is bringing the “BMF” title back into the fold – and it’s uninhabited.
With Jorge Masvidal retired, Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje will heading UFC 291 in a five-round bout, promo president Dana White revealed Tuesday.
UFC 291 will take location July 29 at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City and will likewise function a co-headliner inbetween previous UFC light heavyweight champ Jan Blachowicz, who invites previous 185-pound titleholder Alex Pereira to the department.
Also on the primary card, Paulo Costa returns versus Ikram Aliskerov; Tony Ferguson fights Bobby Green; and Michael Chiesa takes on Kevin Holland.
Poirier (29-7 MMA, 21-6 UFC) and Gaethje (24-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) have angled for a rematch versus one in another in current months. The 2 initially combated at UFC on FOX 29 in April 2018 when Poirier beat Gaethje by fourth-round TKO in a Fight of the Year prospect.
Since that conference, Poirier is 6-2, consistingof 2 wins over Conor McGregor and an interim title triumph over Max Holloway. The 2 losses, nevertheless, were both for indisputable titles, submission beats to Khabib Nurmagomedov and Charles Oliveira.
Gaethje has the exactsame record over that duration of time with losses to the verysame 2 males as Poirier after successive knockouts of James Vick, Edson Barboza,