MIAMI – The dust barely has settled on Dustin Poirier’s dramatic knockout win in the UFC 299 co-main event, and already he’s right back in the title picture.
Poirier (30-8 MMA, 22-7 UFC) seldom has been outside title talk at lightweight for the past several years, but his upset win over Benoit Saint-Denis (13-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC), a Fight of the Night winner at UFC 299 at Kaseya Center in Miami, has someone close to the champion putting an early potential offer on the table.
Ali Abdelaziz, who manages 155-pound champ Islam Makhachev (25-1 MMA, 14-1 UFC), tweeted early Sunday that his client would consider Poirier as his next lightweight title defense.
