Dustin Poirier vs Conor McGregor 2 booked officially for UFC 257
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The much-awaited comeback of ‘The Notorious’ Conor McGregor is now finalized, as according to multiple sources the fight between the former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier has been booked officially for UFC 257. There were many talks around this fight as UFC is finding it very difficult to agree on the terms of this fight’s contract between these both.
Earlier even this news breaks in that Dustin is backing from this fight as UFC isn’t agreeing to his contract clause and Michael Chandler even proposed to face Conor if Dustin isn’t willing to do it. But on late Monday night, it seemed both of them have signed the contract to fight at UFC 257 on January 23 in Las Vegas.
Conor McGregor has announced his retirement earlier this year after his fight with Cowboy Cerrone in January and after that, he created chaos by leaking Dana White’s D.M. but after Khabib retiring he badly wants to get in the ring and grab the title once again.
Conor is willing to fight early
‘The Notorious’ showed heavy intentions about fighting at the end of this year in December. He proposed that he can fight at UFC 255 or UFC 256 whenever he will be proposed to fight. Now with UFC 256 main event getting canceled as Amanda Nunes withdrew her name from the fight.
Conor McGregor wants an opportunity to fight this year but Dana White has cleared that this fight will only happen next year in January. This fight is going to be the main event for UFC 257 and more than six years later Poirier will be getting the chance to take his revenge on Conor.
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