Ask any of Dustin Poirier’s coaching companions and they’re going to inform you that his guillotine choke is an actual drawback within the health club.
Regardless of his unwavering affection for this method, “The Diamond” is but to win a combat by this particular methodology. Nevertheless, issues might have been very completely different.
In 2020, Poirier produced a combat of the 12 months contender in opposition to a fellow light-weight that doesn’t have an oz of give up in him, Dan Hooker.
The combat had nearly every part with each males having their moments in a real battle of wills that finally went the best way of the Louisiana native by way of unanimous determination.
New particulars from Hooker himself recommend that Poirier might have gotten his hand raised even earlier had he and the referee seen one thing in the midst of the combat.
Dan Hooker Says Dustin Poirier Choked Him Out With A Guillotine However No One Seen
Within the third spherical of their unbelievable conflict on the Apex, New Zealand’s Hooker appeared to change up his strategy by taking pictures for a takedown on Poirier.
As he has been recognized to do, “The Diamond” caught his opponent in a guillotine and appeared to wrap up the submission to shut the present.
Hooker was in a position to survive the choke and make his manner out after it gave the impression to be tight, or so it appeared.
On a latest episode of mainevent for Fox Sports activities, Hooker and Alexander Volkanovski got here onto the subject of shut calls with submission makes an attempt.
As Volkanovski mirrored on his personal nail-biting second in opposition to Brian Ortega, his fellow Kiwi shared a never-before-heard story.
“A humorous one, within the Poirier combat, he had me in a guillotine and I may need been the primary man that he ever submitted within the guillotine however he simply didn’t even notice I used to be out so I truly wakened.
“It was the third spherical, I shot for a takedown and he jumped the guillotine after which he will need to have simply run out of steam squeezing as a result of I wakened and I used to be like, ‘Oh the combat’s nonetheless going’, I used to be like, ‘That is cool’. So he did end a guillotine, simply nobody realized.”
