“Can get the #1 contender spot if-” Chael Sonnen says the winner of Michael Chandler vs Dustin Poirier can fight for title under one condition


“Can get the #1 contender spot if-” Chael Sonnen says the winner of Michael Chandler vs Dustin Poirier can fight for title under one condition

Dustin Poirier-Chael Sonnen- Michael Chandler

As rumours of Michael Chandler facing Dustin Poirier are taking rounds, Chael Sonnen is seeing something big in the making than just another banger fight in the lightweight division. Chandler last fought at UFC 274 when he scored one of the greatest knockouts of UFC history over former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson. Chandler, the former Bellator MMA lightweight champion, is currently the #5 ranked lightweight with a 2-2 record in the UFC so far.

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Poirier, the former UFC interim lightweight champion, last fought when he lost his second title shot, this time against the former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira, who’s going ahead to fight Islam Makhachev in an attempt to get his title back at UFC 280. Since his last fight, Poirier hasn’t fought in 7 months and has been desperately looking for an opponent to fight against. With Chandler, Poirier has a little bit of personal beef and the former has also said that he might fight Poirier by the end of 2022 if none of us has any other opponent.

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Chael Sonnen thinks a 3-round and a 5-round war between Poirier and Chandler will be two massively different fights

Dustin Poirier, Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler – Dustin Poirier

In one of the videos on his Youtube channel, Sonnen talks about the possibility of a matchup between Chandler vs Poirier, whose winner by the way of Sonnen can reap greater benefits in the future as per Sonnen. But the reward is not assured.

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“Michael Chandler vs Dustin Poirier are 2 massively different fights if you’re doing it for fifteen minutes as opposed to twenty-five minutes,” says Sonnen “I am telling you they would change the line [of betting]… to make believe that the winner of Chandler-Poirier becomes the #1 contender, if Charles is champion, is gonna be hard, we’ve already seen it both ways… but if Islam becomes the champion… that’s a totally different deal sure you like to see Poirier in there with Islam, sure you did like to see Chandler, absolutely…”

What do you make of this thought of a potential title fight for the winner of the potential fight between Poirier vs Chandler? Who do you think would win if the fight finally happens? Poirier and Chandler are both fierce strikers that can brawl till eternity and the fans wouldn’t be able to do anything except for cheering for both the future Hall of Famers at the top of their lungs.

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