Dustin Poirier flaunts impressive physique in advance of Conor McGregor struggle

UFC light-weight contender Dustin Poirier appears to be like to be in phenomenal shape ahead of his future rematch with Conor McGregor.

Poirier and McGregor will collide in the major occasion of UFC 257 on January 23. The bout, which is rife with light-weight title implications, will be a rematch of a 2014 featherweight battle, which McGregor gained by knockout.

Evidently, Poirier is using the obstacle forward extremely critically.

On Thursday, the lightweight star took to Instagram with a post that proves he’s in suggestion-leading condition.

When Poirier will be looking to even the score in his rivalry with McGregor, that is not his principal determination heading into the matchup. The light-weight start out discussed the factors that are driving him for the duration of a new job interview with comedian Theo Von.

“This isn’t about payback,” Poirier reported on This Previous Weekend. “This isn’t a revenge fight for me. Of class all those points are excellent. I go out there and beat him, people are all element of this storyline, [they’re] things I’m likely to imagine about and be joyful with, but that is not the driving drive of just about every day.

“I’m driven by the key purpose: getting to be the world winner, becoming the very best,” Poirier continued. “I know that a acquire over a person like this, at this level of our professions, it etches my name in the background books—on its personal website page.

“I’m in the textbooks. I’m in the honorable mentions ideal now,” Poirier additional. “I’m attempting get my have numbered web page. I imagine a gain over this guy does that and cements me as a legit combat sports expert in a time that’s comprehensive of fantastic athletes: Conor, Khabib [Nurmagomedov].

“It’s so significantly background associated in this combat. The entire circle, fighting him once more now, turning out to be the interim champ, switching pounds courses. [There’s] so substantially likely into this that I know what a earn does not only for me and for my legacy, but for my spouse and children, their foreseeable future fiscally. I know what arrives with a get, and I’m prepared to bear that pounds at this stage in my career.”

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