Javier Mendez Sees Islam Makhachev Deciding The place Dustin Poirier Battle Goes
Throughout an interview with MMAJunkie.com‘s Danny Segura in Spanish, Javier Mendez expressed his perception that Islam Makhachev will determine the place the matchup goes.
“Islam has all of it. How he needs to win, when he needs to win, the place he needs to win, it’s as much as him. We are able to take the struggle wherever we wish. That’s the distinction between Islam and Khabib. Khabib’s No. 1 factor was wrestling, however Islam can do no matter he needs.”
Khabib Nurmagomedov has a submission victory over Poirier, and a few struggle followers really feel the identical destiny awaits him in opposition to Makhachev. With that mentioned, Islam has proven he has high-level putting as nicely, knocking out Alexander Volkanovski by way of head kick. As Poirier has proven up to now, taking part in the standup recreation is a dangerous enterprise in opposition to the previous interim UFC light-weight titleholder.
A operating joke going into this title bout is that Poirier will hop on a guillotine try solely to be thwarted as soon as once more. If that occurs in opposition to Makhachev, it’ll probably be powerful sledding for “The Diamond” on his again. It gained’t be lengthy earlier than we discover out who emerges victorious on this one.