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Dustin Poirier’s coach: Nate Diaz would do ‘giant numbers’ but title fight first

Dustin Poirier knows Nate Diaz is the money fight, but coach Mike Brown thinks UFC lightweight champ Charles Oliveira should be ‘The Diamond’s’ first pick.

Brown knows Poirier-Diaz would do ‘giant numbers’ and make for one hell of a fight but claims Poirier’s top priority is becoming the undisputed lightweight champion.

“I’m assuming the title will probably be next, who knows,” Brown told My MMA News in a recent interview (h/t BJPenn.com). “I see there’s some talks maybe potentially [about] a Nate Diaz fight. I’m sure that would do giant numbers. They were scheduled to fight before, it kind of fell through.