{"id":281980,"date":"2018-08-01T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=281980"},"modified":"2018-08-01T05:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:58:25","slug":"dustin-poirier-says-hes-willing-to-fight-again-before-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-says-hes-willing-to-fight-again-before-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier says he&#8217;s willing to fight again before title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier has earned a UFC lightweight title shot. If there was any doubt about that, he erased it with his UFC Calgary drubbing of former champion Eddie Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Poirier, the title situation at lightweight is tremendously uncertain thanks to the potential comeback of former champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor.<\/a> Should McGregor return, he will undoubtedly jump to the front of the contendership line and get the next crack at lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov. All signs point to things <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/khabib-nurmagomedov\/report-khabib-nurmagomedov-confirms-conors-next-suggests-poirier-vs-ferguson-fight\/\">shaking out this way<\/a> \u2014 perhaps as soon as UFC 229 on October 6 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Poirier seems to be accepting this reality. In a perfect world, he says he&#8217;d like to wait for a shot at the winner of Nurmagomedov and McGregor&#8217;s potential title fight, but he understands that it might make more sense to take another fight in the interim.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yCVs1i\">\u201cI\u2019m not in a rush,\u201d Poirier said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Luke Thomas Show on Sirius XM Fight Nation<\/a>\u00a0(transcribed by Jed Meshew for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/8\/1\/17637642\/report-dustin-poirier-thinks-hes-earned-a-title-shot-but-willing-to-fight-if-something-makes-sense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cIf something makes sense, then let\u2019s do it but other than that, I feel like I\u2019ve earned a title shot. I\u2019d love for them to fight and then me fight the winner, beginning of next year if that\u2019s possible, but we\u2019ll see. This is a crazy, crazy, crazy thing that we do and things are always changing so you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key for Poirier, of course, is money. He&#8217;s not risking his hard-earned title shot for a typical payday. The UFC will have to make it well worth his while if they want him to take another non-title fight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"vxxPQ4\">\u201cThat\u2019s the only reason I\u2019d come back,\u201d Poirier said. \u201cAt the end of the day, I\u2019ve been doing this to be a world champion and I feel like I\u2019m the closest I\u2019ve ever been so for me to do anything else but what I think I\u2019ve earned, there\u2019s gonna need to be money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Dustin Poirier fights again before his title shot, who do you think he should fight? Tony Ferguson? Kevin Lee?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/1\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier has earned a UFC lightweight title shot. If there was any doubt about that, he erased it with his UFC Calgary drubbing of former champion Eddie Alvarez. Unfortunately for Poirier, the title situation at lightweight is tremendously uncertain thanks to the potential comeback of former champion Conor McGregor. Should McGregor return, he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":274503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10297],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dustin Poirier says he&#039;s willing to fight again before title shot | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-says-hes-willing-to-fight-again-before-title-shot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dustin Poirier says he&#039;s willing to fight again before title shot | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dustin Poirier has earned a UFC lightweight title shot. 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