Dustin Poirier knows there’s more on the line in his UFC 242 main event fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov than just unifying the lightweight title.
For the 30-year old Louisiana native, a win on Sept. 6 not only allows him to live his dream of becoming an undisputed UFC champion but it would also etch him in the history books as the first fighter to ever put a blemish on Nurmagomedov’s otherwise pristine record.
Through 27 fights and 27 different opponents, the undefeated Russian has barely been tested in a fight much less put into the kind of trouble to convince anyone that he was on the verge of losing.