Former interim lightweight champion, Dustin Poirier has been spotted training in Dublin, Ireland this weekend ahead of Bellator Dublin next weekend in the capital – with fans calling for him to share the Octagon with native striker, Conor McGregor in the future.
Poirier, a former interim lightweight champion under the banner of the UFC, has been sidelined since he headlined UFC 291 back in July, suffering a spectacular second round KO loss to fellow former interim gold holder, Justin Gaethje in the pair’s symbolic BMF championship rematch.
Suffering just second his second knockout loss at the lightweight limit with his high-kick stoppage loss to Gaethje, Poirier, who has noted plans to make a comeback for a second Octagon this year before the end of December, recently received a call out from former undisputed lightweight champion, Rafael dos Anjos.
As for McGregor, the 35-year-old striker has yet to make his own Octagon return since he fractured his left tibia and fibula against Dustin Poirier back in 2021, dropping a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss to the Lafayette native in the pair’s heated trilogy rubber match.
And jetting to the Emerald Isle this weekend, Poirier has travelled to…
