His takedowns nullified much of Thompson’s offense and his control was largely enough to win him the fight. Burns did do what no one has really done against Wonderboy since Matt Brown in 2012, and that’s consistently take him down. Stephen Thompson was a bit of a downer in terms of excitement. Smith, and Teddy Atlas all on this card? That’s all I’ve got to say there. Why did ESPN put Max Kellerman, Stephen A. If his early years looked like promotional brilliance, his more recent efforts on the mic come off like that off a deluded, petulant child. McGregor, assuming the injury is as serious as it looked, is done for 2021 and who knows what his career will look like now? But as I said earlier, he jumped the shark with that ridiculous post-fight interview.
Poirier got his trilogy win, he will fight Charles Oliveira for the undisputed belt next. Conor was going “this is not over!” and was yelling something about if he could take this fight outside it’d be different. You can even hear him demanding the official ruling be a doctor stoppage TKO and not by strikes. He still took shots at Poirier’s wife Jolie and then claimed he was beating Dustin up. Then McGregor’s post-fight interview was as clear a “jump the shark” moment as I’ve ever seen. If the fight itself disappointed you for it ending on a bad injury, fear not! Because Poirier had enough of Conor’s trash talk and also told the crowd “All of you booing me, you can kiss my whole asshole!” He also pulled up McGregor for saying he would murder him, at which point Dustin made a “karma” quip. When he did get back up, the injury occurred, more punches followed and obviously no way Conor could fight in Round 2. McGregor’s ill-advised guillotines when Dustin shot for takedowns led to an ass kicking and tons of brutal elbows that busted Conor’s left ear open. The ending was unfortunate but there’s no doubt that at the time of the stoppage, Poirier was in control. UFC 264: ‘Poirier vs McGregor 3’ | 6th Round Post-Fight Show by Bloody Elbow Presents