Watch: Dustin Poirier donates $20,000 to a charity of Charles Oliveira’s choice after UFC 269 loss
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Dustin Poirier donates to Charles Oliveira
The main event of the UFC 269 fight card features the fight between the UFC Lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira defending his Lightweight title against the former interim Lightweight champion, Dustin Poirier. Oliveira defended his title for the first time and he stepped into this fight riding a nine-fight winning streak with his latest win coming against Michael Chandler at UFC 262.
Dustin had Oliveira hurt in round number 1, but Oliveira came back strong and controlled Poirier for the entirety of round number 2.
Oliveira then got Dustin’s back and locked in a rear-naked choke to end things for Dustin. Everybody was rallying behind Dustin in this one, and people were underestimating the champ ahead of his title defense. Charles proved everybody wrong and retained his title. Poirier has achieved everything in his career, other than becoming the undisputed world champion.
The last time he got the chance to realize his dream against the former lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Khabib won the fight in a similar manner, and now that he is 0-2 in his last two title fights, people expected some animosity from him. Dustin, however, remained true to his values and decided to donate $20,000 to a charity of Oliveira’s choice in Brazil. He is the true definition of gracious in victory, and humble in defeat.
“Difference between the so-called “elite” and the ones who are built different,” Michael Chandler calls out Dustin Poirier
Chandler dropped Oliveira in the first round, and almost finished the fight, talking about this the former title challenger, Michael Chandler wrote, “Ok, imagine, it’s June 2022. I lost to the former champion after beating him 10-8 in round one, ROTY candidate. And the new champion the whole world wants to see me run back my FOTY with. Less than 1.5 years after making my #ufc debut. Ooooh…it’s good to be me.“
Then Chandler claimed the “so-called elites” of the division, folded in front of Oliveira, while he took the fight to him. He wrote, “I just didn’t feel it. Yeah, I lost, I get it, but tell me you can’t see a difference between the so-called “elite” and the ones who are built different. Ive been there there to inflict immense bodily harm on somebody since the jump. Others are there to “play mma.”
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