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UFC star Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier seemed to be on his way to securing a rematch against Conor McGregor in his next fight, but now the 31-year-old American lightweight contender is probably wondering what happened with all those big plans.
Poirier seemingly asked McGregor for an update on the planned fight via social media on Wednesday.
Poirier posted, “Hey @TheNotoriousMMA what’s up?”
Hey @TheNotoriousMMA what’s up
McGregor has yet to respond to Poirier’s question.
McGregor vs. Poirier 2?
Last week, UFC president Dana White revealed he offered both McGregor and Poirier a UFC fight.
A few days later, White revealed that Poirier had signed his part of the contract.
So all that was left to do was wait for McGregor’s decision.
But that wasn’t the only iron in the fire for Poirier. After all, McGregor had also offered Poirier the chance to fight McGregor in an MMA sparring match for charity later this year.
In fact, that offer preceded the UFC’s contract and McGregor even had a poster made for it.
Martial art sparring match in aid of charity. Dublin, December 12th 2020.
Free to air spar. McGregor vs Poirier.
List of chosen charities available soon. All donations welcome ❤️
In theory, those two things together (UFC’s rematch offer and McGregor’s charity fight) meant Poirier had twice as good a chance at landing a fight against McGregor.
But no fight announcement came, so now Poirier is left to wonder with the rest of us about what happened to McGregor’s big plans.
McGregor defeated Poirier via first-round stoppage six years ago at UFC 178, but both fighters have gone on to win UFC gold since that date.
A rematch could make sense for both right now, but McGregor has yet to reveal his future plans.
McGregor Could Still Choose Boxing Over MMA
According to ESPN, McGregor prefers facing 8-time boxing champ Manny Pacquiao in a boxing match over any MMA fight.
McGregor announced last month that he would be facing Pacquiao in a crossover boxing match similar to his 2017 boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., but it was later revealed that the Pacquiao fight hadn’t actually been signed yet.
Indeed, Pacquiao subsequently claimed not to have an agreement with McGregor’s management team, Paradigm, despite not disputing the press release sent out in February by the company that said he did.
Regardless, Pacquiao issued a demand to McGregor about the proposed boxing bout saying that the boxing superstar would need to be one of the event’s co-promoters for the superfight to go forward.
McGregor has been silent about his plans since Pacquiao issued that statement, so it’s been easy to speculate that maybe McGregor’s announcement about the fight was a tad premature.
If anything, UFC fans hoping to see McGregor back inside the UFC’s Octagon soon instead of a boxing ring can point to the lack of action since Pacquiao issued his demand as a sign that maybe McGregor doesn’t want to agree to Pacquiao’s terms.
For that matter, Poirier can do the same thing, which is maybe why the American went to Twitter on Wednesday to ask McGregor what was going on.
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