Former interim light-weight champion, Dustin Poirier has as soon as extra been urged to make one remaining Octagon stroll in an overdue grudge combat towards former promotional star, Nate Diaz – time time from his fellow Lafayette star, former UFC champion, Daniel Cormier.
Poirier, a former interim light-weight champion, headlined UFC 302 again in Might most not too long ago, struggling a fifth spherical submission defeat to pound-for-pound primary, Islam Makhachev within the pair’s undisputed light-weight title combat.
Succumbing to a remaining body D’Arce choke submission, Poirier had claimed following his loss to the Russian how he had probably made his remaining stroll to the Octagon, amid continued hypothesis concerning his future in fight sports activities.
Nevertheless, earlier this month, Poirier performed up his possibilities of making a remaining stroll to the Octagon, earlier than final week providing an optimistic outlook, claiming it’s probably he’ll combat contained in the UFC once more.
Dustin Poirier urged to combat Nate Diaz in remaining UFC stroll
And amid hyperlinks to a slew of fights towards the likes of former three-time opponent, Conor McGregor, in addition to two-fight rival, Justin Gaethje, Louisiana striker, Poirier has been urged to pursue a grudge combat with the above-mentioned, Diaz as soon as extra.
“I believe he (Dustin Poirier) ought to combat and I believe he ought to combat solely the massive fights,” Daniel Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I believe if the Nate Diaz combat is feasible, make it occur.”
“There are three guys now that Dustin Poirier spoke about in every week and Dustin Poirier and people three guys are all huge fights,” Cormier defined. “The varieties of fights that Poirier mentioned he would come again for. Dustin Poirier’s preventing once more. It’s only a matter of when and who.”
Initially scheduled to combat Diaz again in 2018 at Madison Sq. Backyard, Poirier and the Stockton native didn’t ever share the Octagon, with each events blaming one another for the bout’s final fall to the wayside.
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