Dustin Poirier Weighs In on Jon Jones vs. Islam Makhachev Pound-for-Pound Debate

With the pound-for-pound debate raging on, former UFC interim light-weight champion Dustin Poirier has cleared the air, divulging his ideas concerning the Jon Jones vs Islam Makhachev debate. Poirier who confronted the LW champ, Makhachev contained in the cage has opened up and given his ideas on the place the Russian stands within the combine.

Talking to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour podcast, ‘The Diamond’ opened up and named Jon Jones as the highest canine, whereas Makhachev turned the second fiddle. Acknowledging Helwani’s query of who’s the true P4P king, Poirier mentioned,

“That’s robust, man, that’s robust cos Jon Jones has by no means been beat, that’s robust, prime 2, yeah.” 

Regardless of struggling a spherical 5 loss in opposition to the Dagestani, Poirier nonetheless has Jon ‘Bones’ Jones on the prime of TheShockNews! Properly, you may’t argue with that so long as Jones remains to be round, at the very least that’s what Uncle Dana (White) needed to say.

Nevertheless, Poirier proved his level, mentioning the truth that, Jones until this level hasn’t misplaced a battle and he cleaned out the sunshine heavyweight division throughout a time when the division was crammed with killers.

In the meantime, regardless that Poirier was put to sleep when Makhachev locked within the D’arce choke, he named the Russian’s mentor/buddy Khabib Nurmagomedov because the stronger among the many two.

Dustin Poirier hails ‘The Eagle’ because the strongest regardless of succumbing to his protege’s “vice grip”

Having confronted each the present and former light-weight champion, Dustin Poirier is the proper man to investigate concerning the two. Showing on Monday’s iteration of The MMA Hour, Poirier opened up, primarily mentioning that Nurmagomedov was the stronger one. Although, he complimented Makhachev’s grip energy, saying that it was like a “vice grip,” he felt like ‘The Eagle’ was bodily stronger.

He added that the technique of each fighters is nearly related with stress being the secret. Each go for takedowns in an effort to drown their opponents with relentless wrestling. Nevertheless, Poirier appears like Makhachev, in contrast to Khabib, does extra clinch work whereas the undefeated Russian prefers to maintain his distance and “shoot for decrease photographs.”