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For Dustin Poirier, beating Khabib Nurmagomedov will have to come, like everything else: The hard way

Ten years ago, a camera crew followed Dustin Poirier as he started out on a path toward the major MMA scene. At the time, Poirier was a novice, just months into his professional fight career. Yet when the resulting film, Fightville, was released, the first words out of his mouth on camera were audaciously grand.

“My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world,” he says in the clip. “Fighting is what I do. My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It’s just in my blood.