Six years ago, Conor McGregor was living inside Dustin Poirier’s head.
In the lead up to their featherweight scrap at UFC 178, McGregor’s personae and banter got to Poirier. He fought emotional in that bout and McGregor stopped him in the first round. A lot has changed since that fight and Poirier displayed just how different a fighter he is today when he scored a second round TKO win over McGregor in the main event of UFC 257.
Poirier is a much mature man these days. He’s more confident in his abilities as a fighter and he showed that in how relaxed he was while fighting a man who had knocked him out in the past.