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All or nothing for Dustin Poirier: “This is my last shot”
Dustin Poirier will fight Islam Makhachev next. Phto via YouTube
Former UFC lightweight interim champion Dustin Poirier has already challenged for the lightweight title twice before, getting submitted by both Khabib Nurmagomedov and Charles Oliveira.
When he steps into the octagon on June 1, to take on reigning champ Islam Makhachev, he knows that it will be his last chance to fight for UFC gold.
“I don’t think I’m going to be around to get another shot,” Poirier said at The MMA Hour. “That being said, I’m not putting the pressure onto myself to where it’s shaking me. It just is what it is. I’m a realist. I try to be optimistic and keep the best mindset, but I understand what it is. I’m 35. The division has to move on at some point, but I’m trying to finish this thing. The reason that I put a pair of gloves on at 17 years old was to say I’m the best in the world, and June 1st, I plan to do it.”
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Dustin Poirier: ” I can finish and beat anybody at 155 pounds in the world”
Dustin Poirier has a feeling that the champion discredits his skills and underestimates his capability of finishing fights.
“I haven’t been keeping up a whole lot but when I was at the gym, Mike Brown told me, ‘Man, I think this guy may be underestimating your jiu-jitsu and underestimating how dangerous you are.’ I think what he was referring to was an interview with Islam saying, ‘This is an easy fight for me.’ I was tagged in a bunch of stuff on Instagram and Twitter of him saying that. And I don’t know, maybe he goes about all fights like that, but I can finish and beat anybody at 155 pounds in the world. I really believe that. And he doesn’t have to believe it. I’m the one who has to believe it and go out there and beat his ass. I can do that.”
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