Former interim UFC light-weight champion, Dustin Poirier has responded to hints from former promotional contender, Nate Diaz that he withdrew from a scheduled battle with him throughout their respective Octagon tenures, urging the Stockton native to elucidate the circumstances as to why they by no means fought.
Poirier, the present #2 ranked light-weight challenger, has but to return to the Octagon since he featured on the principle card of UFC 281 again in November at Madison Sq. Backyard, submitting Michael Chandler with a 3rd spherical rear-naked choke.
Snapping a two-fight shedding skid in his most up-to-date Octagon stroll – which marked the tip of his tenure with the UFC, Diaz submitted former interim champion, Tony Ferguson with a fourth spherical guillotine choke again in September of final yr.
Dustin Poirier responds to Nate Diaz in heated remark
Within the time since his UFC departure, Diaz has been linked with a mess of potential fights in his subsequent fight sports activities enterprise, nevertheless, claimed he landed an additional trio of UFC victories over former light-weight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, the unbeaten, Khamzat Chimaev, and the aforenoted Dustin Poirier – a lot to the dismay of the Lafayette puncher.
“I’m 3-0 within the UFC towards Cumshot (sic) [Khamzat Chimaev], Kabib (sic) [Khabib Nurmagomedov], and Dustin Porier (sic) [Poirier] do (sic) to them being scared pussys,” Nate Diaz tweeted. “Sleep with that.”
“Shut ya b*tch ass up, inform the reality about our match up hoe,” Dustin Poirier tweeted in response to Nate Diaz.”
Poirier and Diaz gave the impression to be on a collision course for UFC 230 at Madison Sq. Backyard again in 2018, nevertheless, neither aspect did not ever formally pen bout agreements for the focused battle.
Poirier was additionally linked constantly with a battle towards Diaz final yr previous to his November return towards Chandler, nevertheless, the UFC elected towards reserving the duo collectively in a long-awaited grudge match.
