Former interim lightweight champion, Dustin Poirier has seemingly announced plans to make a move to the welterweight limit for the first time in his professional career in his return to the Octagon – after suffering a thunderous knockout loss just weeks ago at UFC 291.
Poirier, the current number three ranked lightweight contender, headlined the aforenoted pay-per-view event in Salt Lake City, Utah – competing for symbolic BMF championship spoils in a title-eliminator rematch with fellow former interim champion, Justin Gaethje.
And despite a bright start from the Lafayette native in the opening round, American Top Team staple, Poirier suffered a devastating second round high-kick knockout loss to Gaethje at the Delta Center – dropping his first stoppage loss via strikes since a 2016 defeat to Michael Johnson.