Dustin Poirier by no means passes up a chance to indicate off his guillotine.
‘The Diamond’ completely loves leaping the gilly mid-fight. Even if he’s by no means as soon as completed an opponent with the transfer, he merely can’t assist himself. A lot in order that it’s even turn into a little bit of a joke amongst UFC followers.
Nonetheless, it’s greatest to by no means put your self ready the place Poirier has his forearm cinched in below your neck. Simply ask MMA Junie’s Mike Bohn, who came upon firsthand what it’s prefer to get slept by the light-weight legend.
“So right here—arm in, regular grip,” Poirer defined. “Come this aspect, regular grip. I’d leap full guard, sort of crunch, and minimize these airways off. This—I’m going to shake my very own hand right here, seize my very own hand, go full guard. I feel Grant might need confirmed me this initially. Grant Dawson confirmed me this initially.
“Then I confirmed Chris Duncan, and he hit it twice in a row. I taught Dustin the ghillie, Dustin taught Chris the ghillie, Chris obtained that guillotine choke in his combat. He go once more! Due to this fact, I ought to most likely get slightly little bit of a share from—yeah, proper! I ought to get a share of Chris’s purse. Simply—that’s MMA math for you.”
After coming to, Bohn described what it was prefer to get choked out by Poirier.
“I don’t know—I simply keep in mind being within the arm after which like sort of closing in. I used to be holding it, after which, yeah, subsequent factor I knew, I used to be on my again they usually had been holding my legs.”
Dustin Poirier’s closing UFC combat rumored to be a trilogy bout
Alternating wins and losses over the previous few years, Poirier got here up brief in his third and closing light-weight title alternative at UFC 302, succumbing to a d’arce choke in opposition to defending champion Islam Makhachev.
Following the combat, Poirier confirmed that he’d step contained in the Octagon one final time in 2025. Although no official bulletins have been made, latest rumors recommend that ‘The Diamond’ will shut out his profession with a trilogy combat in opposition to former featherweight king Max Holloway.
Poirier holds two victories over ‘Blessed’ below the UFC banner, the primary coming all the best way again in February 2012 when ‘The Diamond’ submitted Holloway through a first-round triangle armbar. They’d run it again seven years later for the interim light-weight championship at UFC 236. This time round, Poirier would stroll away the winner through unanimous determination.
