Michael Chandler is a highly decorated fighter who captured the Bellator Lightweight Championship three times and is an elite division-one wrestler from the University of Missouri.Ĭhandler took on sixth-ranked lightweight Dan “The Hangman” Hooker in his UFC debut. In the co-main event of Saturday night, the world was finally introduced to Michael Chandler. The strikes were too overwhelming, and Irishman would go crashing down, forcing referee Herb Dean to stop the fight. “The Diamond” circled around McGregor and unleashed a barrage of strikes. Poirier would deliver one final hit to McGregor’s lower calf kick that would leave the Irishman dead in the water. But as McGregor became more and more immobile, Poirier’s boxing began to flow as he was starting to find his boxing range. For the majority of the fight, McGregor was the main aggressor. Poirier was consistent with the low calf kicks, and it became very apparent that they were starting to take a toll on McGregor during the second round. McGregor was landing very good shots, and his clinch work against the cage looked great.
However, it’s not like McGregor didn’t have any success in the fight. The lower calf kicks were pivotal to Poirier’s victory as it almost immediately started to take a toll on McGregor’s movement. Within the first 20-seconds of round one, Poirier delivered the first of many low calf kicks to McGregor’s lead leg. The only other man Poirier had lost to since 2016, was the current lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov.įrom the very beginning of the fight, Poirier perfectly laid the traps he would need in order to win. Just because Poirier lost to McGregor in 2014, it felt like a lot of media wasn’t giving Poirier the true respect his stand-up game deserved. The evolution and growth of Dustin Poirier’s boxing and confidence was becoming more and more evident every time he would step in the octagon. The Louisiana native continued his hot streak from 2017 to 2019, with wins over Anthony Pettis, Justin Gaethje, Eddie Alvarez, and Max Holloway. Likewise, for McGregor, both fighters are leagues above their skill level from when they first met.Īfter his loss to McGregor in 2014, Dustin Poirier went on a four-fight win streak. When the rematch was first announced between the fighters, it couldn’t have been stressed enough just how much of a different fighter Dustin Poirier had become since 2014. Six years later, and Dustin Poirier is finally a redeemed man. McGregor went onto finish Poirier in just under two minutes in the first round.
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McGregor was six years into his professional mixed-martial-arts career, Poirier just five years in. In September 2014, a 26-year-old Conor McGregor squared off against a 25-year-old Dustin Poirier. And in the co-main event, Michael Chandler delivered the best debut possible with a big knockout over sixth-ranked lightweight, Dan Hooker. UFC 257 is officially in the books and man what a night it was! Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier handed UFC megastar, Conor McGregor, his first knockout loss.
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