UFC President Dana White said Saturday he needed a third fight between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier to occur in July, and it seems like he's close getting his craving.
Ariel Helwani of ESPN uncovered Monday the McGregor-Poirier III is"close to being settled" considering the way that the main event for UFC 264 at July. The plan could be made when this week.
McGregor and Poirier have both conveyed a hankering to work using a rematch to their meeting from January, which saw Poirier gain a second-round TKO win to put himself in lightweight title struggle.
Michael Chandler will take on Charles Oliveira at UFC 262 for its empty lightweight contest following Khabib Nurmagomedov pronounced his retirement. White uncovered Thursday that Poirier turned down a title fight to focus to get a rematch with McGregor:
"Dustin needs the rematch [with Conor McGregor]. That is keen. That is what he ought to do. He should pick the rematch, take that fight. It's a colossal fight for him.
"Youngster's worked for seemingly perpetually, his whole calling to be in a circumstance in this manner. That is the fight you require. We have been in positions in this course before with various others who have submitted the mistake of not taking that fight, and [it was the] most prominent slip up of their lives."
It's plausible the third battle in their arrangement of three McGregor squashed Poirier inside their first matchup at UFC 178–might push toward the 2 million engraving.
White definite the UFC is presumably going to have complete fan presence at moving toward pay per-sees, beginning with UFC 261 at Jacksonville, Florida. The arranging of UFC 264 has been now to be articulated, regardless, the course of action is for its meeting to occur in Las Vegas–accepting White would propel the go-past to help the event with complete fan interest.
White has since quite a while past kept up that he wouldn't have UFC events down the center filled fields.
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