“If I’m Dustin Poirier, I’m just waiting for Conor 4,” Michael Chandler believes Poirier should skip the title shot and face Conor McGregor
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Michael Chandler on Dustin Poirier vs McGregor
Michael Chandler just lost the lightweight title match to Charles Oliveira at UFC 262. Chandler is in talks to face the former interim-lightweight champion Justin Gaethje next, and now he has offered a piece of advice for the next title challenger Dustin Poirier.
Dustin is next in line to face Oliveira for the title shot, but Chandler believes he should wait for McGregor to come back, in his recent interview with Helen Yee, he said, “If I’m Poirier, I’m just waiting for Conor 4. If Poirier goes and wins the title, can Conor come right back and fight Poirier if he has the title? Crazier things have happened. So, if I’m Poirier, I’m just waiting out and waiting for Conor 4, especially after he said numerous things about my wife and my kids and killing me, all that kind of stuff.”
He added, “But I also know… and this is a testament to Poirier as a competitor, he wants to win the ultimate prize in mixed martial arts. He’s been an interim champion, but he hasn’t full-fledged 100% undisputed champion. So, I think the competitor in him will go fight Charles Oliveira.”
Michael Chandler believes Dustin Poirier will defeat Charles Oliveira to become the lightweight champion
Chandler has faced Oliveira and he almost knocked him out in the very first round, he thinks Oliveira is a great champ but he will come up short against Poirier “I think they’re both well-rounded. I think Poirier’s got a little bit more of kind of that dog in him when the fight gets in the thick of it,” Chandler suggested.
Chandler added, “Charles Oliveira beat me in the second round, very soon into the second round, so we didn’t really see a lot of longevity in a fight like that. We saw him go through rounds with Tony Ferguson, but that was muchly a one-sided affair. I think a fight with Dustin Poirier, he puts hands on him pretty solidly those first couple rounds and kinda starts to put it on Charles. I think Poirier wins that fight by third, fourth-round finish. If they do go all five, Poirier wins the decision.”
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