Dustin Poirier poked stress-free at Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler following the announcement they will fight every diverse.
McGregor hasn’t fought since fracturing his tibia and fibula within the principle spherical of his third fight with Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021.
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Dustin Poirier obtained his third fight with Conor McGregor by physician stoppage
Because of the inconclusive nature of their tiebreaker trilogy bout, it has been suggested that McGregor and ‘The Diamond’ will fight for a fourth time sooner than their fight sports careers are completed.
On the exchange hand, that fight will now not be next as UFC president Dana White confirmed on Saturday McGregor will face Chandler later this year after they delight in coached alongside every diverse on ‘The Closing Fighter.’
And despite failing to register for the United States Anti-Doping Agency, as of but, the Irishman is allowed to be a coach.
Poirier, who’s coming off a third-spherical submission obtain over Chandler, took to social media to react to the news two of his ordinary opponents are location to throw down.
He comically tweeted: “The Closing Fighter – all my childhood edition.”
On the exchange hand, he instant modified into the butt of the droll fable when Michael Johnson, who brutally knocked him out in 2016, took issues one step extra by suggesting he is Poirier’s father.
“Contented day within the Johnson household! Seeing my grandchildren coach TUF. Proud Grandpa. I could well assert,” Johnson wrote alongside a image that showed him as the senior figure in a household portrait that included Poirier, McGregor, and Chandler.
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Poirier tapped out Chandler in November
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It’s within the intervening time unclear when McGregor and Chandler will fight, however the latter is predicting a knockout obtain.
“I’m going to obtain in his face, plot him take a backwards step factual away. He’s going to genuinely feel my presence from the very starting of the fight and then from there wherever the fight takes us.
“If I’d love to make a choice him up and set him down, I’m able to make a choice him up and set him down and set a beating on him and obtain a submission that manner. I bet I assemble Conor within the 2d spherical. That’s my ‘Mystic Mike’ take on this, afterward this year on every occasion it’s.”
White recently revealed the pair will scurry to Las Vegas later this month to begin filming TUF and talk about particular limited print about the matchup.
“We don’t delight in any limited print for the fight but,” he talked about. I don’t delight in a achieve of abode. I don’t delight in a date. I don’t delight in any of that stuff but.
“The coaches are presumably going to obtain here the Monday after the Colossal Bowl and we’ll obtain lots of these issues learned.”
What we produce know is the 31st season of the wildly successful MMA-basically based fully actuality point to will poke from May maybe well maybe maybe additionally fair 30 to August 15 and McGregor vs. Chandler will now not take achieve of abode except after the closing point to has aired.
