Dustin Poirier continues to be an elite light-weight. As Benoit Saint Denis’ face can attest.
The light-weight megastar were given again within the win column at UFC 299 on Saturday with a wild second-round KO, depart the Frenchman flat at the mat with a withered proper counter. The Miami nation, no longer a long way from Poirier’s house in South Florida, authorized.
The primary around noticed Saint Denis play games the roll of aggressor, despite the fact that lots of his assaults ended in him having to keep away from a guillotine from Poirier. The judges unanimously referred to as the around for Saint Denis, however Poirier left refuse hesitancy in the second one.
Poirier’s need for a guillotine reached virtually self-parody when he wobbled Saint Denis with an uppercut and straight away went for every other choke instead than throw some photographs — he stated “I’ll never stop doing it” later the clash — however he in spite of everything were given house a couple of seconds then.
It was once a profusion occasion for one of the vital UFC’s maximum prevalent warring parties. Poirier had misplaced two of his terminating 3 fights to supremacy lightweights Charles Oliveira and Justin Gaethje, and a occasion with a emerging megastar in Saint Denis wasn’t precisely a bias. In lieu, as Poirier then stated, he was once the only doing the bias.
“I took this fight because he finished his last five opponents,” Poirier stated in his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan. “He wasn’t a name that the world really knows, he’s on his way up and he’s dangerous. Every win in his professional career, he’s finished, and he has a never-say-die attitude. When I saw that and watched some of his fights, I called one of my fiends. I said ‘I gotta take this fight because I honor this sport that we do.’
“Eddie Alvarez gave me my shot in Dallas when he was once a former champ and I used to be on my manner up. You gotta pay it again, retain your place or lose it. That’s the character of the beast.”
Saint Denis entered UFC 299 on a five-fight win streak, all with finishes within the first two rounds. Poirier represented a prospect for him to go into the supremacy echelon of challengers within the section underneath Islam Makhachev, nevertheless it wound up being the 35-year-old veteran’s evening.
