The elation that one might have expected to see from Dustin Poirier was absent. He’d hit the MMA lottery by knocking out Conor McGregor on Saturday at UFC 257 in Abu Dhabi, but he didn’t look or act like a guy who’d had that one-in-a-billion winning Powerball ticket.
You win the Powerball and you jump and you yell and you cheer and you can’t believe your good fortune.
Poirier did none of that. It was like he expected to do what he’d done on one of the most remarkable nights in UFC history.
It was McGregor who was all smiles afterward, the strut that so many love to imitate absent but the grin and the good humor still there.