{"id":314403,"date":"2019-05-22T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=314403"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:11:58","slug":"dustin-poirier-makes-prediction-for-ferguson-vs-cerrone-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dustin-poirier-makes-prediction-for-ferguson-vs-cerrone-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier makes prediction for Ferguson vs. Cerrone fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier will get the next crack at UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Barring a shakeup courtesy of Conor McGregor, the next title shot beyond that will likely go to the winner of a UFC 238 fight between Tony Ferguson and Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on how things shake out, then, there&#8217;s a chance Poirier will find himself with the winner of Cerrone and Ferguson&#8217;s fight sometime late this year or early next.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie Radio<\/a> recently, Dustin Poirier made a prediction for this fight. While the oddsmakers \u2014 and likely most fans \u2014 are leaning toward a Ferguson win, Poirier believes Cowboy will ride again and pick up one of the biggest victories of his career at UFC 238.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;With the UFC, you never know, I could be defending against Max Holloway,&#8221; he joked, acknowledging that a win does not guarantee Ferguson or Cowboy a win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I think Cowboy wins that fight but we&#8217;ll see,&#8221; he continued, offering up a prediction for this UFC 238 fight. &#8220;I&#8217;m not even looking that far ahead. I never disrespect that work that needs to be done and I have a lot ahead of me with this Khabib fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the same episode of MMA Junkie Radio, Dustin Poirier <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dustin-poirier-updates-on-potential-ufc-242-fight-with-khabib-nurmagomedov\/\">updated on the negotiations<\/a> for his fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov. The fight is being targeted for UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi, but he says it&#8217;s far from official just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is pointing to it happening in Abu Dhabi, September 7, me and Khabib,\u201d Poirier said. \u201cI\u2019m not sure what the holdup is or what\u2019s going on. I have no clue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Poirier last fought in the main event of UFC 236, when he defeated featherweight champ Max Holloway to win the UFC interim lightweight title.<\/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 5\/21\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier will get the next crack at UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. Barring a shakeup courtesy of Conor McGregor, the next title shot beyond that will likely go to the winner of a UFC 238 fight between Tony Ferguson and Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone. Depending on how things shake out, then, there&#8217;s a chance Poirier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":281782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10134,10297,10113,39610],"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>Dustin Poirier makes prediction for Ferguson vs. Cerrone fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dustin Poirier makes a prediction for the upcoming UFC 238 lightweight contender fight between Donald Cerrone and Tony Ferguson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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