Daniel Cormier advises Dustin Poirier towards retirement after UFC 302.
Poirier (30-8 MMA, 22-7 UFC) fell quick in his third shot at undisputed gold when he was submitted by light-weight champion Islam Makhachev (25-1 MMA, 14-1 UFC) on this previous Saturday’s headliner at Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J.
After shedding to Makhachev, Poirier mentioned which will have been his last combat. Cormier doesn’t like listening to Poirier ponder retirement, and sees many huge cash fights for him exterior of the belt.
“I don’t need to see him go,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “I don’t know that he ought to go. I believe that what Dustin Poirier ought to do is take the massive fights. He’s such an attraction now on the earth of preventing that he’s received some huge cash to be made, but additionally a whole lot of huge fights available.
“He’s solely 35 years outdated, so he can do that for a very long time. Possibly don’t combat as incessantly, however proceed to make that stroll as a result of when you’re carried out, you’re carried out and you may’t come again from it.”
Cormier additionally lauded Poirier for the way in which he fought towards Makhachev. ‘The Diamond” confirmed improved takedown protection, however was finally submitted in Spherical 5.
“He fought nearly as good in shedding as he’s fought in a very very long time,” Cormier mentioned. “I believe that he was higher (Saturday) than he was towards Benoit Saint Denis, and that’s a credit score to him and his teaching employees. I assumed he fought properly.
“Clearly, you lose, sure, there’s some disappointment. However total, I believe Dustin Poirier goes to be very happy with his efficiency within the octagon. But when that is it, congrats DP, man. You probably did one thing many might by no means have anticipated you to do.”
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