Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is making its return to “The Garden State” next month for the UFC 302 pay-per-view (PPV) event, recently made official for Sat., June 1, 2024 inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Headlining the card will be the lightweight title fight between reigning 155-pound champion Islam Makhachev and former interim titleholder Dustin Poirier.
The UFC 302 PPV co-main event will feature an important middleweight matchup between former 185-pound champion Sean Strickland and one-time title challenger Paulo Costa.
“Dustin, he is a warrior, legend, he has more than everybody experience in this sport,” Makhachev recently told TMZ Sports. “But his problem is his style. That’s the one problem this guy has. His weak point is wrestling and grappling, and I have the key for the easy fight. And if I follow the plan, I can beat him easy. My style and Khabib’s style, it’s worst style for Dustin. People who can can take him down, hold him there, it always gives him problems.”
We’ll find out in just a few weeks.
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