Everything about this fight going in was obvious to Phil and I: Conor McGregor would eventually win, and probably in dramatic fashion. Dustin Poirier was a little too blue collar in his approach in my estimation. But I want to quote myself because I didn’t get everything wrong:
“While I don’t think Poirier can counterpunch effectively, he does have effective counterpunches and he nearly caught Conor with a few in their first fight. If Poirier can maintain a rhythm where he’s punishing Conor with counters as much as Poirier is getting punished by Conor’s counters, I can see Dustin nickel-and-diming his way to victory.