If Dustin Poirier is retired, he’s beginning the following section off in model.
Poirier will be a part of Teddy Atlas, Chael Sonnen, and Brendan Fitzgerald on the analyst desk for UFC 303, going down this Saturday in Las Vegas. The commentary crew would be the conventional pay-per-view squad of Jon Anik, Joe Rogan, and Daniel Cormier, with Megan Olivi serving because the sideline reporter, and Din Thomas dealing with real-time evaluation.
This comes lower than a month after Poirier fell brief in his light-weight title combat towards Islam Makhachev at UFC 302. Observe the loss, Poirier recommended he’s “leaning towards” retirement.
UFC 303 is headlined by a lightweight heavyweight title combat rematch between Alex Pereira and former champion Jiri Prochazka. Initially, the Worldwide Combat Week card was purported to be headlined by the return of Conor McGregor towards Michael Chandler, nonetheless, McGregor withdrew from the cardboard as a result of damage and Pereira and Prochazka stepped in on brief discover to save lots of the occasion.
Additionally on the cardboard, Brian Ortega takes on Diego Lopes in a featherweight matchup, Anthony Smith faces Roman Dolidze in a lightweight heavyweight combat, and Ian Machado Garry squares off with Michael “Venom” Web page in a welterweight bout.