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Dustin Poirier: I don’t really want to fight Covington, but I have to do it

Arthur Vardanian
Arthur Vardanian
UFC fighter Dustin Poirier revealed why he decided to challenge welterweight Colby Covington.

“I don’t have a particular hatred for anyone, but Colby is at the head of the queue for my hatred. I really don’t like this guy and I don’t want him to make even a dollar from fighting me.

I was offered a fight with him last week. I would have to wait until the end of the year to get a lightweight contender to fight or fight Colby at welterweight in July and that was the name they gave me.

So it wasn’t a challenge and I’m not going to go out of my way to get into a fight with him. I don’t have a big desire to fight Covington and I don’t want him to benefit from it, but if I have no other options to get a fight before the end of the year, I’ll have to do it.

I don’t want to sit on standby because the last fight was in December, which is potentially 10-11 months of inactivity. 

I am healthy and I want to fight,” Poirier said.

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