UFC 269: Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier Prediction, Odds, and Fight Preview

The newly crowned UFC Lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira is going to defend his title against the former interim Lightweight champion and number one ranked UFC Lightweight fighter, Dustin Poirier at the main event of UFC 269. Here is the Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier Prediction, Odds, and Fight Preview.

UFC 269: Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier Fight Preview

Charles Oliveira is one of the most successful fighters to ever compete in UFC. He has been fighting in the promotion for over a decade and the success story of this Brazilian MMA fighter is really unbelievable. Oliveira made his UFC debut against Darren Elkins at UFC Live: Jones vs Matyushenko and at the start of his career, he competed in Featherweight as well as Catchweight divisions.

‘Do Bronx’ had a really bumpy start to his career, but since he made a comeback to the Lightweight division against Will Brooks at UFC 210, Charles Oliveira turned his career upside down. After that fight, he just lost one fight against Paul Felder at UFC 218 and now he holds the longest active win streak in the Lightweight division.

During his winning streak run, he has defeated some of the biggest names in the division such as Tony Ferguson, Kevin Lee, Jim Miller, and others. After Khabib Nurmagomedov vacated the Lightweight title, Charles Oliveira got the opportunity to fight for the title against Michael Chandler at UFC 262, and ‘Do Bronx’ achieved his lifelong dream by knocking Chandler out in the second round of the fight.

This fight at UFC 269 is going to be Oliveira’s first title defense and the champion is in no mood to let the title slip from his hands at any cost.

Dustin Poirier is one of the biggest stars on the UFC roster. He is also fighting in the promotion for almost a decade. Poirier made his UFC debut against Josh Grispi on UFC 125 and over the course of his career, he holds win against the biggest names of the promotion such as Max Holloway, Justin Gaethje, Eddie Alvarez, Conor McGregor, and others.

He won the interim Lightweight title by defeating Max Holloway at UFC 236 and challenged Khabib Nurmagomedov for the Lightweight title at UFC 242. But Khabib defeated him via third-round submission and this is going to be the second time when Dustin Poirier is going to fight for the title.

This is going to be Poirier’s third fight this year and he is coming into this fight with a three-fight winning streak with his latest win coming against Conor McGregor at UFC 264. He is one of the biggest stars in the Lightweight division now and he will look forward to leaving the Octagon with a title around his waist at any cost in this fight.

UFC 269: Charles Oliveira vs Dustin Poirier Prediction and Odds

Dustin Poirier is the betting favorite entering into this fight with odds of -170 in his favor against Charles Oliveira who is coming into this fight to defend his title for the first time as an underdog with betting odds of +140 of his favor.

This fight is one of the biggest fights of the year 2021 and these two stars of the UFC lightweight division are going to produce an absolute show for the fight fans around the world in the final pay-per-view of this year.

Predicted Result: Charles Oliviera def Dustin Poirier.

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