It was straight to the surgery room for Dustin Poirier following his submission loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 242, as ‘The Diamond’ took some much needed time off to repair a hip injury that has been bothering him for almost eight years.
With the surgery complete, the former interim UFC lightweight champion is recovering on a plant-based, vegan diet and expects to return to the Octagon sometime in March/April of next year.
“I’ll be training hard in January and I think that late March, early April is realistic,” Poirier told MMA Fighting in a recent interview.