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McGregor analyzes KO loss to Poirier: ‘Those leg kicks are not to be messed with’

Dan Hardy was spot on in his pre-fight assessment of Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor.

“If Poirier can start chopping away at that lead leg, it nullifies big chunks of McGregor’s game,” Hardy said in the weeks leading up to the UFC 257 main event between Poirier and McGregor. “It effectively breaks the handle of the spear because McGregor now can’t plant all of his weight onto that lead leg to throw that left hand over the top with all his power. Because that leg is going to be dead and to put weight on it is going to be painful.