“Maybe never get the opportunity again to call myself world champion,” Dustin Poirier doesn’t see himself competing for the title ever again
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Dustin Poirier
The former interim UFC Lightweight champion, Dustin Poirier had a devastating loss against the newly crowned champion of the Lightweight division, Charles Oliveira at the main event of UFC 269. Poirier was completely convinced before this fight that he is going to leave the Octagon with a Lightweight strap around his waist.
But Oliveira made his tap in the third round of the fight and defended his title for the first time inside the Octagon. This loss came as Dustin Poirier’s second loss in the UFC Title fights and both of them came via rear-naked choke submission. In the UFC 269 post-fight press conference, Poirier had tears in his eyes and ‘The Diamond’ admitted that he doesn’t know what is next for him.
Talking about the same in his latest interview with Ariel Helwani for MMA Hour, Poirier says, “I’m just so much better than that, and everybody says that when they lose, but I know I am, just s*cks cause it’s one of those things. Maybe never get the opportunity again to call myself world champion, and to under-perform, I owed it to myself.”
“This one was for me. It wasn’t for the money. It wasn’t for proving anything. It was for me and I f*cking fumbled. It hurts.” {H/t MMA Fighting}
Dustin Poirier claims he maybe never fight at the Lightweight division again
Dustin Poirier fought three times in 2021 and he was already saying before the fight that he is never going to fight that more times in the year again and after his loss, he admitted that cutting to 155 isn’t beneficial now and if Poirier is going to come back, it is going to be in the Welterweight division.
Poirier continued, “I don’t know if I’m going to make that cut again, I might never fight at 155 pounds again. I don’t know the future. I could have cut a few more pounds. I could have come in at 152 on this fight. My cut went so smooth, I felt great. Of course, that’s because I did all the things I was supposed to do in my training camp that made the cut so great.”
“But I don’t know if I want to go through that training camp again where I’m hungry every day and competing in the gym and pushing myself on the low calories. We’ll see, I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen.” {H/t MMA Fighting}
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