On the night of Saturday, January 23, on Sunday, January 24, a rematch between Irish fighter Conor McGregor and American Dustin Poirier will take place. Their fight will be the main event of UFC 257.

The event will take place on Boytsovsky Island in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The fight between McGregor and Poirier will begin no earlier than 7:00 Kiev time.

This fight will not be a title fight. However, many experts suggest that the winner will have a chance in the next fight to compete for the UFC lightweight championship belt, which was left by the Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov, who announced his retirement.

FIGHTCARD FEATURES 11 EARLY PRELIMS BATTLES 02:00 Amir Albazi (Iraq) - Zhalgas Zhumagulov (Kazakhstan) 02:30 Nick Lentz (USA) - Movsar Evloev (Russia) PRELIMS 03:00 Khalil Rowntree (USA) - Marcin Prachnio (Poland) 03. Conor's weight was 70.3 kg. Under Porier, the weights showed 70.7 kg. FIRST MEETING OF FIGHTERS The first fight between Conor and Dustin took place on September 27, 2014. Then the Irishman had less than two minutes to knock out the American.

On account of 32-year-old Conor 26 fights in mixed martial arts (22 wins, 4 losses). The latter he spent in January 2020, knocking out Donald Cerrone in 40 seconds. In the summer of 2020, McGregor announced for the third time that he was ending his sports career, but later changed his mind about retirement..

Poirier won 26 victories in MMA, suffered six defeats, and another fight with his participation was declared invalid..