Confirming plans this week to fight at least once — if not twice more inside the Octagon, Dustin Poirier has been backed to make a return to combat sports by UFC CEO, Dana White, who claims the former interim champion could never be “counted out.
Poirier, a former interim lightweight champion, retains the number four rank in the official divisional rankings, most recently headlining UFC 302 at the beginning of June, dropping a third undisputed championship charge.
Sucumming to a fifth round finish, Lafayette striker, Poirier was submitted in the final round by undisputed champion and pound-for-pound number one, Islam Makhachev in New Jersey, and weighed up potentially retiring from mixed martial arts in the immediate aftermath of the loss.