Poirier: I think I can beat anyone in the division
Dustin Poirier: “I want to get this win and get my hand raised and take it from there, but my plan is to be a top-10 fighter in the lightweight division.”
Dustin Poirier had spent most of his career in the featherweight division, but in his last fight moved up to lightweight, defeating Carlos Ferreira by TKO. Now Poirier is looking at climbing the lightweight ladder and is confident he has the skill set to beat anyone in the division:
I want to get this win and get my hand raised and take it from there, but my plan is to be a top-10 fighter in the lightweight division by the end of 2015, he said.
Fighting Medeiros, a scrappy veteran on a two-fight win streak, is going to kickstart his campaign.
I promise you this, I’m not going to try to lay on top of him and win a decision, and he’s not going to do that to me, Poirier said. We’re going in there to finish each other. That’s the kind of fights I like to be a part of. So let’s go out there and make this money and put on a show for the fans.