Dustin Poirier har nu 2-0 i record mot fjäderviktsmästaren Max Holloway. Första gången besegrade han honom genom submisson inom fjädervikt år 2012. I helgen vann han igen genom enhälligt domslut, inom lättvikt om viktklassens interim-bälte.
Trots att han nu har två raka mot hawaiianen Holloway säger sig Poirier vara öppen för en tredje fight.
Han hade följande att säga till MMA Junkie efter helgens UFC 236:
My next fight has to be for a unification fight [with Khabib Nurmagomedov]. But I love Max. I’ll fight him five more times.
När han pratade vid post-fight presskonferensen för UFC 236 berättade Poirier mer om sina känslor kring helgens match och förklarade att det just är sådana matcher han älskar. Han hyllade även där Max Holloway för hans skicklighet och fighteranda. MMA Junkie citerade honom som följande:
One time my mouth was bleeding and I spit, and I spit on him and he said, like he knew that I did it on accident, I didn’t aim at him but it just might have hit him. Man, this is a fistfight, you might get some spit on you. When I hit him with a good shot he would say, ‘That was good’ or start clapping.
When I kneed him in the face, before he started bleeding, when he picked his head up from the knee, I saw the gash and I said, ‘Gotcha.’ It was just — it was a battle.
He’s kind of tricky. His speed and timing, his cadence that he uses is a little different. He’ll loop shots to the body, throw slow jabs with a fast cross behind it. It keeps you off. A lot of his jabs didn’t land, but the cross did. The guy’s a good striker.
That’s what fighting is to me. That’s the purest feeling of fighting to me. I’m hurt, I’m busted up, he’s hurt, he’s busted up, we’re both digging down, who wants it more?
That grit of fighting is addictive, I’m scared of it. It’s a very weird thing.
