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Makhachev doesn't want to retire Poirier at UFC 302, just beat him in the lightweight title clash
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FILE - Dustin Poirier, right, kicks Michael Chandler during the first round of a lightweight bout in the UFC 281 mixed martial arts event, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 in New York. Poirier has won 30 MMA fights overall and has at least one more left - a career-defining bout on a third try at the UFC lightweight championship - against Islam Makhachev in the main event of UFC 302 on Saturday, June 1, 2024, in New Jersey. - photo by AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, FILE
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Islam Makhachev understood the reasons why Dustin Poirier would consider retirement after their lightweight title clash in the main event of UFC 302. The 35-year-old Poirier has cited family, blossoming business interests, and just a general weariness of the grind that it takes to reach a championship bout as motives as to why he may call it quits, win or lose to Makhachev. Makhachev just believed Poirier had more fight left in the tank.