Gilbert Burns eyes exciting superfight next: ”It makes sense!”

Gilbert Burns. Photo via Instagram (@gilbert_burns)

If Dustin Poirier decides to move up from lightweight to welterweight, there is a certain top ranked Brazilian fighter who can’t wait to take him on.

“If you ask me which fight I wanted, it’s Dustin Poirier,” Gilbert Burns recently said.

“He’s moving up and that would be a super cool fight, but everyone’s calling him out, everybody wants him, so I won’t talk too much about it. But it’s a cool fight because of his name, because he’s moving up. It makes sense for him to fight against a top-five [welterweight].”

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Another interesting fight for Burns would be a rematch against former world champion Kamaru Usman. However, that’s a fight that hardly will materialize as Umsan is moving back to his old gym in Florida where the Brazilian also trains.

“Kamaru is back at the gym again and that was the fight for me, but I hardly think it happens now,” Burns said. “Henry [Hooft] told me that Kamaru was coming back to train with us, that his plan was to maybe fight two or three times more and retire, that he’s at the end of his career, so there’s not much we can do. It kills one of the options I had — especially if he really is at the end of his career, this fight wouldn’t add much to him.”

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