Poirier: I’ll be McGregor’s 1st real fight
Dustin Poirier: “The UFC is my house. I built where I’m at from the ground up, man, and nobody’s going to come in here walking around talking that trash.”
The Octagon had barely emptied at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 45 before UFC featherweights began to line up for a shot at Conor McGregor. One of those fighters, Dustin Poirier is hopeful it will be home and believes he will McGregor’s his first ‘real fight’ inside the Octagon:
When asked if he considered McGregor a top ten fighter in the 145-pound division, Poirier didn’t need to ponder it.
“No, no,” he said. “Not even top ten. I will be the first real fight he’s ever been in.”
With both McGregor and Poirier willing to fight, it’s up to the UFC matchmakers to decide whether or not to book it, and to assign the stakes. The 25-year old Poirier is hovering near the top of the division, but he said even though he’d want it to be a No. 1 contender’s bout, he doesn’t think McGregor has the merit to make it one.
Poirier says it’s strictly a vendetta fight against a guy who need to be taken down a notch.
“I feel like he’s disrespecting the whole featherweight division, and nobody’s going to step up and put this guy down and shut him up?” he said. “The UFC is my house. I built where I’m at from the ground up, man, and nobody’s going to come in here walking around talking that trash.”
