Dustin Poirier has shared a violent prediction for his UFC 302 title combat towards Islam Makhachev.
Poirier is about for his third crack on the UFC’s undisputed light-weight title as he takes on Makhachev on June 1 in the principle occasion of UFC 302 in Newark, New Jersey.
Coming into the combat, Poirier is a sizeable underdog, and Makhachev has already vowed to complete the American.
“We’ll begin and I’ll attempt to take him down,” Makhachev instructed Yahoo Sports activities. “He’ll attempt to get me in a guillotine [choke]. I’ll defend the guillotine. I’ll give him a few punches. He’ll give his again. Then I’ll end. In the future perhaps, I hope [Poirier] will end his guillotine on somebody. Nevertheless it’s not going to be me.”
But, talking to Yahoo Sports activities Dustin Poirier has loads of confidence heading into the scrap and shared a violent prediction for the bout.
chilly line by Dustin Poirier, it’s over for islam pic.twitter.com/rIwiGx6UhI
— Dovy🔌 (@DovySimuMMA) Could 21, 2024
“I’m going to knock him unconscious and the ref goes to be pulling me off of him,” Poirier stated.
If Poirier does KO Makhachev it will be a statement-making efficiency as not solely would he turn out to be the UFC champion, however he would have pulled off one of many larger upsets in UFC historical past. However, Poirier definitely has KO energy and Makhachev’s lone loss is by knockout, which is why ‘The Diamond’ appears like he can do exactly that at UFC 302 to turn out to be the brand new champion.
Dustin Poirier is coming off a second-round knockout win over Benoit Saint-Denis at UFC 299 to return to the win column after a KO loss to Justin Gaethje. Poirier is 2-2 in his final 4, as he additionally misplaced to Charles Oliveira for the light-weight title and submitted Michael Chandler.
Poirier is the previous interim light-weight champ and holds notable wins over Conor McGregor (x2), Max Holloway (x2), Justin Gaethje, Eddie Alvarez, and Anthony Pettis amongst others.