Dustin Poirier accepts obstacle from Colby Covington

Dustin Poirier has approved the problem laid out by former teammate Colby Covington at UFC 272.

Covington experienced named out Poirier next his unanimous determination victory about Jorge Masvidal at March’s pay-per-view party in Las Vegas.

“That battle wants to come about. He’s talked too reckless in the media, he’s stated ‘it’s on sight’ and the past time he was chatting to you clickbait merchants he was declaring ‘oh I’m not gonna fight Colby in the Octagon in which there’s finances on the line, I’m gonna combat him in the streets and we’re equally gonna go to jail’. It is funny, it is pretty ironic for the reason that he talks about getting a spouse and children male, a great person, but he would like to fight me in the streets and potentially go absent from his family. Dustin Poirier has all these stipulations to battle me, I just have a single stipulation – my 1 stipulation is he lets the entire world view and delight in by themselves.”

Whilst Poirier (28-7 MMA) at first dismissed Covington’s callout by suggesting he go combat a welterweight contender, he has due to the fact experienced a transform of coronary heart.

‘The Diamond’ took to Twitter on Friday night where by he verbally accepted Colby’s challenge to throw down, pinning UFC 277 on July 30th as the fight date.

.@ColbyCovMMA July 30th i accept

— The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) May 14, 2022

”@ColbyCovMMA July 30th I accept.”

Dustin Poirier has not competed since struggling a third round submission reduction to Charles Oliveira at UFC 269.

Whether or not the UFC will basically commence with reserving the Poirier vs. Covington grudge match continues to be to be seen.

In accordance to Colby Covington, he employed to make ‘The Diamond’ depart the gymnasium in tears subsequent their sparring classes at ATT.

“I utilized to smack him all around so quite a few periods in sparring back again in the working day. I signify, for yrs, smacking him. He’d pretty much depart the fitness center crying. He’d go to Make Brown, just crying, I simply cannot beat him, why’s his cardio so great, why does he just preserve punching me in the experience, I simply cannot do it.”

Would you like to see a welterweight bout among Dustin Poirier and Colby Covington booked for July’s UFC 277 function? Who do you feel would acquire?

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