Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The MMAhour,
Dustin Poirier admitted to biting his opponent Michael Chandler, oddly using his mouth to do the fighting, along with his fists of course.
Poirier, at UFC 278 had a back and forth with Chandler in the crowd, where Poirier was visibly angry, screaming at Chandler claiming that Chandler is “fake” and that is the reason he doesn’t like him.
But Chandler didn’t seem to have a problem with Poirier, and took the situation lightly all the way up to UFC 281 where they faced off. But admitting that when Poirier said, “I’d rather go sell hotsauce” when offered the Chandler fight annoyed him.
Poirier, ended up submitting him in the third round, but not before a big exchange on the feet, followed by a heavy grappling exchange, and a potential fight of the year candidate.
Amidst the grappling exchanges Michael Chandler did some questionable things that Dustin did not find favourable and possibly added to his thoughts of Chandler he had already.
Chandler was seen blowing the blood from his nose in Poiriers face. There where blobs of blood falling on Poirier and blood running in his ears. Poirier saying he was cleaning blood out his ears three days after the fight.
Poirier stated, he was getting those blobs of blood blown in his face “I was calling him a nasty motherf****r“.
Poirier also said, “I could hear him blow his nose, and If you go back and watch the replay of blood falling out his nose, ya it was leaking, it might be broken but when he got it lined up where he wanted it, those huge blobs that come out, that didn’t fall out, he forced them out“.
But Poirier stated he understands this is “war“. And furthermore admits to doing the same thing to an opponent when he got his nose shattered in the Joe Duffy fight in 2016.
Chandler was also seen “fish-hooking” Poirier. Which is a move where you put your hand in the opponents mouth and pull.
Dustin saying, “he had his fingers on my top teeth where my mouth guard is, so he kinda pulled to get my neck up to lock in the choke“.
That is where Poirier admits to biting Chandlers fingers as they were in his mouth. But says the bite wasn’t hard enough because his fingers did not budge,
While speaking about these two incidents, Poirier 100% believes that Michael Chandler did this intentionally to get an upperhand in the fight.
Despite all this, Poirier hasn’t seemed to reconcile his thoughts and feelings toward Chandler being “fake”.
