Linked with an impending return to the Octagon for the primary time since late final 12 months, former welterweight kingpin, Kamaru Usman might have turned down a grudge struggle with Jan Blachowicz final week, nonetheless, has prompt a fantasy matchup with Dustin Poirier after UFC 302.
Poirier, a former interim light-weight champion, headlined UFC 302 over the course of the weekend in New Jersey, struggling an eventual fifth spherical submission loss to undisputed divisional champion, Islam Makhachev.
Discovering himself on the receiving finish of a spectacular ankle decide within the last spherical after handing over a valiant efficiency, Lafayette native, Poirier was compelled to faucet to a D’Arce choke – earlier than ultimately going unconscious.
And weighing up a possible – and admittedly doubtless retirement from fight sports activities following his third unsuccessful siege of the undisputed light-weight crown, Poirier was instantly supplied one final rodeo by former featherweight titleholder, Alexander Volkanovski.
Kamaru Usman goals up Dustin Poirier fantasy conflict
Nonetheless, insisting he isn’t throwing his title into the ring to face Poirier in his return, Auchi veteran, Usman has claimed a struggle with the American High Crew star can be “enjoyable” – claiming the 2 would push one another to their respective limits.
“He’s (Dustin Poirier) bought fights,” Kamaru Usman mentioned on his Pound 4 Pound podcast. “The (Alexander) Volkanovski struggle might – that’s a enjoyable struggle. I’m not in any means throwing my hat in, however [if] he needs to go up [to welterweight], don’t do it. I’m not saying that, however I at all times put my thoughts there. If I used to be to ever compete towards a man like Dustin Poirier, that will be a improbable one as a result of it’s a man that I might actually respect although and thru the method.”
“It’s such as you and your predominant coaching associate and also you’re identical to, ‘Yeah, we’re going to beat one another up.” Kamaru Usman defined. “‘We’re going to push one another to the brink.’ That may be a enjoyable struggle, however I’m not throwing [my name in the] hat.”
Who would win in a possible struggle: Kamaru Usman or Dustin Poirier?
