Dustin Poirier has enjoyed finally earning the championship belt, and his foundation has benefitted from his success as well.
Every morning for the last couple of months, Dustin Poirier wakes up to a new and beautiful sight:
UFC gold laying on his counter.
“It feels better than I thought it was going to feel,” Poirier said when UFC.com caught up with him during UFC Fort Lauderdale in April. “Every morning, I wake up, I’m excited to wake up just because I wake up with a different step.”
When Bruce Buffer read the scorecards in Poirier’s favor and Dana White put the strap around his waist, it was the culmination of a long, roundabout journey to the title.