Conor McGregor is space to make his extremely anticipated return to the Octagon within the headliner of the next day night’s UFC 257 event.
McGregor is space to collide with Dustin Poirier for a 2nd time on Saturday night. The pair first met in a featherweight contest abet in 2014, with the Irishman emerging victorious by blueprint of first spherical TKO.
No topic no longer having competed within the past twelve months, Conor McGregor is confident that he’ll provide followers with a “masterpiece” the next day night on Wrestle Island. ‘Infamous’ has predicted that he would possibly perhaps per chance as soon as extra cease Poirier within the most main spherical, presumably in much less than sixty seconds.
The old skool two-division UFC champion, McGregor (22-4 MMA), took to Instagram this night to exclaim that he has activated “Gorilla mode” sooner than the next day night’s matchup with ‘The Diamond’.
“Gorilla mode urged!” – McGregor captioned a photograph of he and Poirier squaring off at recently’s weigh ins.
While Conor McGregor is susceptible to be planning one other fleet lift out of the old skool meantime champion, Dustin Poirier is hoping to provide the the same. ‘The Diamond’ recently suggested that he additionally shopping for a first spherical stoppage protect.
McGregor final competed at UFC 246 in January of 2020, where he indispensable correct 46-seconds to dismantle Donald Cerrone in a welterweight contest.
Sooner than that protect, McGregor modified into as soon as coming off a fourth spherical submission loss to bitter rival and current UFC light-weight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Meanwhile, Dustin Poirier (26-6 MMA) will enter his rematch with Conor McGregor looking to scheme off the momentum of his thrilling resolution victory over Dan Hooker from abet in June. Savor McGregor, Poirier’s most most smartly-liked protect modified into as soon as preceded by a submission loss to undefeated light-weight kingpin Khabib Nurmagomedov.
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