{"id":324493,"date":"2019-09-06T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=324493"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:58:20","slug":"coach-outlines-keys-to-victory-for-dustin-poirier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/coach-outlines-keys-to-victory-for-dustin-poirier\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach outlines keys to victory for Dustin Poirier"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi, Dustin Poirier will attempt to become the first man to defeat UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. In order to do so, he’ll have to thwart Nurmagomedov’s stifling ground game.<\/p>\n

Poirier’s coach, Mike Brown, believes this can be done. Brown has recently helped several of Poirier’s fellow American Top Team fighters prepare for grapplers not unlike Nurmagomedov. He prepped Kyoji Horiguchi for his two battles with Darrion Caldwell, and he helped Jorge Masvidal get ready for Ben Askren, and all of those fights went American Top Team’s way.<\/p>\n

Brown is confident this will also be the case when Poirier fights Nurmagomedov. Poirier simply needs to focus on his strengths, and force the champ to adapt.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strong wrestling style with great conditioning, but we\u2019ve seen similar styles in different weight classes, like\u00a0Kyoji Horiguchi\u00a0and\u00a0Darrion Caldwell\u00a0and\u00a0Jorge Masvidal\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Askren. These are all very recent fights and all the fights were different, but it was that strong wrestling style that they were fighting,\u201d Brown told MMA Fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, you\u2019re going to want to stay out of some troublesome areas, but you don\u2019t want to abandon what got you to the dance\u2014you\u2019ve got to get him to adjust to you,” Brown added. “Of course you have to be ready for some of his strengths and you can get ready for that because you\u2019re going to be working on your wrestling defense and your standups, but you don\u2019t want to stray too far from what got you there. You be you and make him adjust to your game.”<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Brown is confident Poirier can defeat Nurmagomedov. Poirier, of course, shares that confidence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe knows what he\u2019s capable of,” Brown said of Poirier. “He\u2019s confident in his abilities. He doesn\u2019t need someone else to tell him how good he is. We know how good he is, so it won\u2019t be a surprise to us. We know what he\u2019s capable of and so does he, and that\u2019s all that really matters. He\u2019ll be confident and he\u2019ll be able to go hard for 25 minutes. I don\u2019t think a lot of guys have been able to do that [against Khabib] and I think it\u2019s one of Dustin\u2019s best attributes, his conditioning and his mental will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think Dustin Poirier can hand Khabib Nurmagomedov his first loss this weekend at UFC 242?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/6\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi, Dustin Poirier will attempt to become the first man to defeat UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. In order to do so, he’ll have to thwart Nurmagomedov’s stifling ground game. Poirier’s coach, Mike Brown, believes this can be done. 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