It wouldn’t be a Conor McGregor fight week without controversy. McGregor (22-4 MMA, 10-2 UFC) and Dustin Poirier will square off in the lightweight main event of UFC 257 on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, and the stakes in both competitors’ careers are major. Can the former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion make a statement that he’s got his head on straight and has one more title run left in him? Can Poirier, who was knocked out in less than two minutes by McGregor in their 2014 fight, cap his own rise by removing an old blemish from his record? How will UFC president Dana White’s teenage crush-like thirst to lure retired lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov back to presumably fight the winner loom over the week.
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