{"id":309968,"date":"2019-04-16T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=309968"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:32:15","slug":"odds-khabib-nurmagomedov-opens-as-significant-favorite-over-dustin-poirier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/odds-khabib-nurmagomedov-opens-as-significant-favorite-over-dustin-poirier\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds: Khabib Nurmagomedov opens as significant favorite over Dustin Poirier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dustin Poirier is now the UFC interim lightweight champion. He won this title with a riveting decision defeat of reigning UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway in the UFC 236 main event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a UFC belt now wrapped round his waist, Dustin Poirier can look forward to a title unifying showdown with undisputed champion Khabib Nurmagomedov \u2014 perhaps as soon as September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, that\u2019s the fight,\u201d UFC President White said of this matchup after UFC 236 (via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/4\/14\/18310036\/dana-white-dustin-poirier-will-fight-khabib-nurmagomedov-next\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cPoirier will fight Khabib next. Probably in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome guys have the Israel Adesanya path and the Conor McGregor path and some have the Poirier path,\u201d White added. \u201cIf you look, I don\u2019t remember what the numbers were, but Chuck Liddell had to go through that same thing and then Tito (Ortiz) wouldn\u2019t fight him and there\u2019s been a lot of guys \u2014 Tony Ferguson, look at the bad luck that guy\u2019s had. And the list goes on and on, some people it works out for and some people have longer roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPoirier has stayed the path and trained hard and done what he\u2019s had to do to to get here and tonight was his night. He fought an incredible fighter and he won. Unless something happens to Dustin Poirier, he gets hurt or gets injured or something happens, he\u2019s got the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early odds for this anticipated Dustin Poirier vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov title fight have now been released. Despite Poirier&#8217;s incredible performance against Holloway, he&#8217;s not being given much of a chance by the oddsmakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online bookmaker\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/\" target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a> has identified Poirier as a +205 underdog (bet $100 to win $205), while the undisputed champ Nurmagomedov is sitting at -240 (bet $240 to win $100). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Khabib Nurmagomedov: -240<\/li><li>Dustin Poirier: +205<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Who do you think will come out on top when Khabib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poirier fight later this year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 4\/16\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier is now the UFC interim lightweight champion. 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With a UFC belt now wrapped round his waist, Dustin Poirier can look forward to a title unifying showdown with undisputed champion Khabib Nurmagomedov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":285825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10297,10114,39610],"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>Odds: Khabib Nurmagomedov opens as significant favorite over Dustin Poirier | 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\/ufc\/odds-khabib-nurmagomedov-opens-as-significant-favorite-over-dustin-poirier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Odds: Khabib Nurmagomedov opens as significant favorite over Dustin Poirier | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dustin Poirier is now the UFC interim lightweight champion. 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