The world’s best active lightweight is holding court outside of a sports bar in south Louisiana. It’s a muggy afternoon in early May, nine weeks out from the most important fight of his life, and with the smell of boiled crawfish thick in the air, Dustin Poirier is in his element. These are his people. In moments, Taylr Murphy, the mother of three standing behind the UFC fighter, will bury her head into her husband’s chest, crying. Tears have been a constant in the Murphy household over the last few years, but today’s are different. Today’s are because Lafayette’s champion is about to surprise Taylr’s son, 21-year-old Peyton, with a gift the family once couldn’t have begun to fathom.
The Making of a Good Fight: How Dustin Poirier’s humanitarian revolution is changing lives
