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Dustin Poirier: Giljotinen på Khabib Nurmagomedov kunde lyckats – gjorde ett avgörande misstag

Dustin Poirier intervju

Det var en besviken Dustin Poirier som mötte media efter helgens UFC 242. Den dåvarande interim-mästaren i lättvikt blev dominerad i tre ronder innan han blev avslutad av UFC-mästaren Khabib Nurmagomedov genom submission (rear-naked-choke).

Poirier hade dock en egentlig chans att besegra ryssen när han fick in en giljotin i början av den tredje ronden. Nurmagomedov berättade efter matchen att Poirier hade ett kraftigt grepp om honom vilket den senare bekräftade efter matchen vid post-fight presskonferensen. Poirier gav också en anledning varför submissionförsöket misslyckades:

The guillotine was really deep. But for the rest of my life I’m gonna look back and wonder why I didn’t jump full guard with it. I just threw one leg over so he couldn’t pass, to take the choke off. I should have jumped full guard. I don’t know why I went shin across the stomach with the right leg, or whatever I had, butterfly with it, I should have gone full guard so he couldn’t roll out and relieve the pressure.

Poirier berättar även att han hade problem med ryssen i det stående och hur svårt det var att komma in i en rytm på grund av UFC-mästarens udda rörelsemönster:

When I hurt him—maybe in the back of my head the takedown was—I felt like I couldn’t get anything going with my standup. He’s very awkward, he dips his head and throws uppercuts, he never got into an orthodox kickboxing or boxing exchange on the feet. It was all one punch at a time or him dipping and throwing a knee or him dipping and throwing an uppercut. I didn’t get a rhythm. I felt like the way he was pulling back it was hard for me to set up my combinations and get into a rhythm. I know I sound like I have a lot of excuses, but I was just so prepared for tonight. This one really hurts.

Poirier valde även att hylla ryssen men är ångerfull över att han inte kunde gjort bättre ifrån sig:

The guy’s good, man. He’s the world champ, Maybe I could have done more. You know, hindsight’s 20/20. I was very prepared for this fight, to fight 25 minutes. He did exactly what I thought he was going to do. Of course, I’m going to beat myself up and I’m the only one who has to deal with this, me and my family. I’m just wondering if maybe against the fence, when I got underhooks, if I could have tried a little bit harder to get off the fence maybe. But that’s just the questions that I’m going to have to live with for the rest of my life. I thought for sure he was winning the rounds. Taking me down and dominating, but I felt like he was squeezing hard, we were getting slicker, I felt like he was getting a little weaker.

I’m familiar with adversity. It’s just I have to live the rest of my life asking myself if I could have done more, if I could have maybe escaped some of those takedowns. If I could have pushed harder when I had my underhooks against the fence.

Those are the questions that will haunt me. I’ve lost before.

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