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UFC 281: Poirier v Chandler
Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler | Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

Dustin Poirier only had to point at the scoreboard to win his latest dispute.

It’s no secret that Poirier and fellow lightweight contender Michael Chandler have long disliked each other, with their feud culminating at UFC 281 in November 2022 when Poirier defeated Chandler by second-round submission in a “Fight of the Night”-winning duel.

Despite the respect was shown in the cage that night, there’s still plenty of animosity between Poirier and Chandler, and Chandler used a word association segment with ESPN to take a shot at “The Diamond.”

Watch the clip below, in which Chandler called Poirier “salty.”

It didn’t take Poirier long to respond and he didn’t have to say much, simply posting the finish from their fight on Instagram Stories (h/t Championship Rounds):

Chandler has other fish to fry this Saturday as he takes on another past opponent in Charles Oliveira in the co-main event of UFC 309 in New York. Let’s hope Chandler is recovered from Poirier’s burn by the time fight night rolls around.


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Truth. Tom Aspinall knows whoever wins between Jones and Miocic won’t be the “undisputed” anything.


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Tyson and Paul face off.

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FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS

David Onama (12-2) vs. Roberto Romero (8-3-1); UFC 309, Nov. 16


FINAL THOUGHTS

The top-2 fights at UFC 309 are intriguing, but as far as narratives go they have zero juice. Jones has spent 90 percent of his media time being asked about Tom Aspinall, not Stipe Miocic, and Michael Chandler’s rematch with Charles Oliveira came out of nowhere.

That’s not to say these fights won’t deliver because they definitely could. It’s just that the lack of enthusiasm surrounding the final UFC pay-per-view of 2024 is understandable.


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