Conor McGregor Breaks Bone, Loses to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264

Conor McGregor shed his rematch versus Dustin Poirier after an unusual end to the preliminary in which McGregor showed up to damage either his reduced left leg or his ankle joint. As McGregor and also Poirier turned at each various other, McGregor stumbled backwards and also damaged a bone without Poirier striking him.

In a post-fight meeting, Poirier stated that he thought McGregor fractured his ankle joint previously in the battle– when Poirier efficiently safeguarded a kick– which the break was finished when McGregor stumbled backwards. McGregor, utilizing unprintable language, differed.

” This person is a sleazebag, male,” Poirier stated concerning McGregor, mad concerning prefight garbage talk that he thought repetitively gone across the line.

Prior to the unusual end, the battle was a barnburner. McGregor and also Poirier appeared moving and also kicking, acquainted with each various other from 2 previous matches. Poirier racked up a mid-round takedown, and also maintained McGregor on the ground for a lot of the remainder of the round, landing a flurry of elbow joints to McGregor’s face that left his ear bloody.

McGregor has actually currently battled 4 times in the last 5 years and also shed 3 times, consisting of 2 straight to Dustin Poirier. The U.F.C.’s light-weight department is just one of its inmost, and also with a busted bone and also no clear course back to the top, McGregor is foundering.

Poirier will likely deal with Charles Oliveira, that was resting cageside, for the light-weight belt. However provided the U.F.C.’s record for making big-money battles, it is not impossible that Poirier and also McGregor will certainly deal with eventually once again.