Are fans going to see the trilogy fight with UFC‘s Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier?
On Sunday, Poirier took to Twitter to claim McGregor hasn’t divvied up the $500,000 that he said he would for “The Diamond’s” charity, The Good Fight Foundation.
The tweet elicited a scathing response from McGregor that night, defending himself. And then on Monday, McGregor said that the “fight is off” with Poirier.
He also said he is going to “fight someone else” on July 10 at UFC 264.
The UFC has not commented on the situation, and at the time of this writing, it’s unclear if “Notorious” will follow through on his word.
However, sniffing the McGregor money fight, multiple fighters threw their names in the hat as a potential opponent for the Irishman.
On May 15 at UFC 262, No. 4-ranked lightweight Michael Chandler will fight No. 3 Charles Oliveira for the vacant 155-pound belt. And Chandler already wants to book his next fight:
“May 15 and July 10…book it! #backtoback.”
Chandler made his UFC debut on the same card of Poirier vs. McGregor 2 back in January. “Iron,” who is a former multiple-time Bellator lightweight champion, knocked out Dan Hooker in the first round.
He is currently on a three-fight winning streak and is 6-1 in his last seven fights, losing only to Bellator lightweight and featherweight king Patricio Freire.
“RDA” and McGregor were scheduled to fight for dos Anjos’ lightweight belt in 2016, however the Brazilian pulled out due to injury.
