Former interim light-weight titleholder, Dustin Poirier has confirmed he can have information on his closing Octagon outing earlier than hanging up his gloves following a storied UFC profession.
Poirier, who retains the quantity 4 ranked light-weight challenger, has been sidelined since he took most important occasion honors at UFC 302 again in June, forcing undisputed champion and pound-for-pound primary, Islam Makhachev to the fifth spherical in an eventual D’Arce choke submission loss to the Russian.
A former interim champion, Lafayette striker, Poirier’s most up-to-date win got here within the type of a rallying second spherical strikes end win over current UFC Combat Night time Paris headliner, Benoit Saint-Denis, halting the Nimes native’s roughshod run by means of the light-weight ranks.
Dustin Poirier confirms struggle information coming quickly
And confirming plans to struggle another time earlier this summer season regardless of weighing up a possible retirement from blended martial arts, Poirier confirmed on social media at present how he had information of his closing stroll within the promotion on the tracks.
“Combat information coming,” Dustin Poirier posted on his official X account this night.
And earlier this week, Conor McGregor — a three-time foe of the above-mentioned, Poirier revealed plans to fight him a fourth clash in the future, claiming that regardless of the very fact the previous holds two wins over him of their three struggle sequence, their rivalry is much from over.
We’re searching for the date,” Conor McGregor stated of his UFC return. Hopefully, I’d prefer to sq. it away with Michael Chandler. I’d prefer to get Chander in. We’ve had our beef, it’s not settled. He has a match scheduled. I’d prefer to struggle, perhaps earlier than that or earlier than he’s recovered so there are just a few names within the line on the minute. There’s just a few names being mentioned.”
“Each of them. Each,” Conor McGregor stated of grudge fights with each Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz. “It’s a should, for certain. The Dustin one will not be settled, it’s 1-1-1. And the Diaz one can also be 1-1. Two large, blockbuster matches and I’m excited to get them locked in.”
