Dustin Poirier opens up on the future: ”I don’t want to fight just to fight”

Dustin Poirier. Photo: USA Today Sports

UFC star Dustin Poirier is one of the absolute best lightweights around, but no stranger to a tough defeat.

At UFC 291 the post-fight press conference he opened up on the second-round TKO loss against lightweight rival Justin Gaethje.

“It sucks obviously,” Poirier said. “Losing sucks but I’ve lost before. I said the same thing before, it’s not cool to be acquainted with these feelings but I’ve been here before. The career I’ve had and the fights I’ve had and where I come from, I feel like I’ve already won,” Poirier said.

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Dustin Poirier: ”I busted my ass”

The former interim lightweight champion fought a solid first round, but got caught with a quick and hard head kick in the beginning of the second round.

“I got hit with a shot I just didn’t see. Like natural instincts, I had one hand up just from years of training but the foot still got around. I haven’t seen it, I need to rewatch it. The foot got around good, it got me. I just didn’t even see it but I still could compete. I have tread on the tires. I feel great. I just did a nine week camp in south Florida and pushed myself everyday, had the easiest weight cut of my life. I busted my ass. That’s why losing sucks. You do all this work and nothing’s guaranteed.”

If the 34-year-old UFC veteran will be back in the cage again, it will be for another massive fight.

“I’m not fighting just to fight. I did that my whole life. My whole life I’ve done that. I don’t want to fight just to fight. I want it to be for something.”

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