Linked with an impending return to the Octagon for the primary time since late final 12 months, former welterweight kingpin, Kamaru Usman might have turned down a grudge combat with Jan Blachowicz final week, nonetheless, has advised a fantasy matchup with Dustin Poirier after UFC 302.
Poirier, a former interim light-weight champion, headlined UFC 302 over the course of the weekend in New Jersey, struggling an eventual fifth spherical submission loss to undisputed divisional champion, Islam Makhachev.
Discovering himself on the receiving finish of a spectacular ankle decide within the remaining spherical after delivering a valiant efficiency, Lafayette native, Poirier was pressured to faucet to a D’Arce choke – earlier than ultimately going unconscious.
And weighing up a possible – and admittedly doubtless retirement from fight sports activities following his third unsuccessful siege of the undisputed light-weight crown, Poirier was instantly provided one final rodeo by former featherweight titleholder, Alexander Volkanovski.
Kamaru Usman goals up Dustin Poirier fantasy conflict
Nevertheless, insisting he isn’t throwing his identify into the ring to face Poirier in his return, Auchi veteran, Usman has claimed a combat with the American High Staff star could be “enjoyable” – claiming the 2 would push one another to their respective limits.
“He’s (Dustin Poirier) bought fights,” Kamaru Usman mentioned on his Pound 4 Pound podcast. “The (Alexander) Volkanovski combat might – that’s a enjoyable combat. I’m not in any approach throwing my hat in, however [if] he needs to go up [to welterweight], don’t do it. I’m not saying that, however I all the time put my thoughts there. If I used to be to ever compete towards a man like Dustin Poirier, that may be a unbelievable one as a result of it’s a man that I might actually respect although and thru the method.”
“It’s such as you and your most important coaching associate and also you’re similar to, ‘Yeah, we’re going to beat one another up.” Kamaru Usman defined. “‘We’re going to push one another to the brink.’ That may be a enjoyable combat, however I’m not throwing [my name in the] hat.”
Who would win in a possible combat: Kamaru Usman or Dustin Poirier?
