{"id":400227,"date":"2021-11-24T05:49:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=400227"},"modified":"2021-11-24T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:50:13","slug":"dustin-poirier-says-he-will-probably-go-to-170-if-he-defeats-charles-oliveira-at-ufc-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dustin-poirier-says-he-will-probably-go-to-170-if-he-defeats-charles-oliveira-at-ufc-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier says he will \u201cprobably go to 170\u201d if he defeats Charles Oliveira at UFC 269"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier says he will \u201cprobably go to 170\u201d if he defeats UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira for the 155lbs strap at UFC 269.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/justin-gaethje-blasts-quitter-charles-oliveira-ahead-of-dustin-poirier-title-fight-at-ufc-269\/\">Poirier is set to return to the Octagon next month when he takes on Oliveira for the UFC&#8217;s 155lbs belt<\/a>. Despite being the challenger, Poirier is actually the betting favorite on paper heading into the fight to win the title. Should that happen, then there is speculation that Poirier might decide to walk away from the sport just because he would have accomplished so much at that point. But according to Poirier, he has no plans on hanging up his gloves. If anything, Poirier says, he would want to challenge himself by moving up to 170lbs instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m not retiring. I\u2019m 32, man. I feel good. You see the way I\u2019m moving out here today. I feel good. I\u2019m having fun. If anything, I\u2019ll go up. I\u2019ll probably go to 170, if anything,&#8221; Poirier told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_T_lLfD4oO0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie.com&#8217;s Danny Segura<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/sportskeeda.com\/mma\/news-ufc-269-dustin-poirier-reveals-compete-welterweight-winning-lightweight-title?ref=homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SportsKeeda<\/a>). &#8220;But no, honestly, my goal isn\u2019t to try to have the most successful title defenses. I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll see. One day at a time. I can\u2019t look, none of that is even a reality until December 11th happens, and I get my hand raised. I have to do that first before we can even go into these conversations because I don\u2019t know what\u2019s next. I live my life one day at a time, man; a quarter-mile at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Poirier has his hands full with Oliveira but provided that he wins that fight, the possibilities become endless for him at both lightweight and welterweight. Poirier is always someone who is in high demand, anyways, so expect the callouts to be louder if he wins the title.<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Dustin Poirier will fare at 170lbs if he decides to move up in weight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier says he will \u201cprobably go to 170\u201d if he defeats UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira for the 155lbs strap at UFC 269. Poirier is set to return to the Octagon next month when he takes on Oliveira for the UFC&#8217;s 155lbs belt. Despite being the challenger, Poirier is actually the betting favorite on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":374322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10589,10297,39610],"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 says he will \u201cprobably go to 170\u201d if he defeats Charles Oliveira at UFC 269 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dustin Poirier says he will \u201cprobably go to 170\u201d if he defeats UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira for the 155lbs strap at UFC 269.\" \/>\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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