'%20x='0'%20y='0'%20height='100%25'%20width='100%25'%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20xlink%3Ahref='data:image/jpg;base64,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'%3E%3C/image%3E%3C/svg%3E)
#2 UFC Fight Night 76 – 10/24/15
Original main event: Dustin Poirier vs. Joseph Duffy
Replacement main event: Paddy Holohan vs. Louis Smolka
When the UFC announced its return to Dublin in October 2015, the initially billed main event of Dustin Poirier vs. Joseph Duffy was hardly world-shattering anyway. Poirier has since developed into a genuine contender, but at that stage, both he and Duffy were prospects rather than contenders and the fight was a clear step down from the Conor McGregor-headlined show in Dublin a year prior.
Still, it sounded like fun at least. That was until three days before the show, when it was announced that Duffy would be unable to fight due to a concussion sustained in a sparring session earlier that week. Poirier was offered Norman Parke as a late replacement but turned the fight down and so the show was left without a main event.
Unable to put a new fight together on late notice, the UFC instead elevated a fight between two unranked Flyweights – the local boy Paddy Holohan and Hawaiian Louis Smolka – into the main event slot, booking probably the weakest main event in UFC history.
In the end, the fight was fun at least – Smolka submitted Holohan late in the second round after nearly ten minutes of back-and-forth grappling.
