{"id":3415,"date":"2024-03-15T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2024-03-16T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:43:53","slug":"islam-makhachev-and-dustin-poirier-may-be-fighting-for-the-lightweight-title-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/islam-makhachev-and-dustin-poirier-may-be-fighting-for-the-lightweight-title-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier may be fighting for the lightweight title in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Islam Makhachev says for the first time that the UFC offered him to fight Leon Edouard at UFC 300, but he refused because&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dagestani champion, Islam Makhachev, retained his world title in the UFC light heavyweight sport, after his exciting victory over his Australian competitor, Alexander Volkanovski.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As exchanges with Islam Makhachev continue, one MMA legend doesn&#8217;t see Dustin Poirier facing the champion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After his stunning knockout victory last weekend at UFC 299 over Benoit Saint Denis, there has been a lot of discussion in the MMA community about the possibility of Dustin Poirier fighting Islam Makhachev for the lightweight belt during summer. On his YouTube channel, Chael Sonnen explains the \u201conly way\u201d for \u2018The Diamond\u2019 to get the next title shot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_91161\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-CBdjkpZ2aE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dustin Poirier depends on UFC 300?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dustin Poirier&#8217;s knockout of Beno\u00eet Saint Denis caught the attention of fans and fighters around the world, including champion Islam Makhachev, who recently said he was ready to defend his title against Poirier in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, the top of the lightweight division could look completely different by the time the summer schedule rolls around, with Charles Oliveira facing Arman Tsarukyan and Justin Gaethje facing Max Holloway on April 13 at UFC 300.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_85927\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXl5m5dQLZA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So , how can Dustin Poirier put himself in the perfect position to get his title shot, against the winners of these two huge fights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be noted that Islam Makhachev won all his matches during his 7-year professional career, as he only suffered one defeat compared to 23 victories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his statements before the match, when he was asked whether he would retire after equaling the victories of the former Russian champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, he replied: \u201cI am not looking too far ahead to what will happen in the future. My goal now is to win the second in a row. I am still young but not at the top of my game.\u201d \u201cMy performance and when I feel my energy and speed slow down, I will retire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam Makhachev says for the first time that the UFC offered him to fight Leon Edouard at UFC 300, but he refused because&#8230; The Dagestani champion, Islam Makhachev, retained his world title in the UFC light heavyweight sport, after his exciting victory over his Australian competitor, Alexander Volkanovski. As exchanges with Islam Makhachev continue, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,86,93,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-mma-video","9":"category-podcast","10":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}