Dustin Poirier shares his Mount Rushmore of MMA

Extinct UFC intervening time mild-weight champion Dustin Poirier has shared his Mount Rushmore of blended martial arts.

Poirier (28-6 MMA) has gone 8-1 (1 NC) over his previous ten fights, including support-to-support TKO victories over Conor McGregor in his most up-to-the-minute efforts. Now one in all the greatest stars in the game, ‘The Diamond’ became once requested who helped inspire him to transcend to the tip of the MMA world.

“I frail to be a mountainous fan of Georges St-Pierre. He’s one in all the fellows who can maintain all of it. And support spherical when he became once genuinely starting up to get up, a man became once a grappler, or a man became once a wrestler, or this man’s a kickboxer.” Dustin Poirier told Valuetainment in a contemporary interview (h/t MMANews). “He became once one in all the first guys who could well perhaps perhaps genuinely keep everything collectively and became once a complete blended martial artist, world champion, spoke neatly, and I became once a tall fan of Georges.”

Poirier persisted and listed three varied warring parties, apart from to ‘GSP‘, who belong on the Mount Rushmore of MMA.

“Khabib’s up there, Fedor is up there. Fedor’s gotta be up there. Jon Jones have to be up there, too.”

Dustin Poirier will keep his three-fight winning slump on the line December 11 when he challenges reigning mild-weight title holder Charles Oliveira at UFC 269.

‘The Diamond’ has handiest misplaced once in the previous 5 years, suffering a submission loss to the aforementioned Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 242.

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