{"id":178,"date":"2021-07-09T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=122915"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:39:25","slug":"conor-mcgregor-attempts-to-kick-out-at-dustin-poirier-ahead-of-ufc-264-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/conor-mcgregor-attempts-to-kick-out-at-dustin-poirier-ahead-of-ufc-264-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor attempts to kick out at Dustin Poirier ahead of UFC 264 bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor kicked out at Dustin Poirier as the two were set to square off in Las Vegas ahead of UFC 264.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, McGregor will face off again with the American at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, with both men having won their previous fights.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman kicked out at Poirier during the face-offs after a friendly build-up to their fight earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier was TKO\u2019d by McGregor at\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">UFC 178<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u00a0in 2014, but McGregor lost the following fight to the same fighter at UFC 257.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the press conference before the fight, McGregor said: \u201cI\u2019m going to go through his head, put holes in him and take it off his shoulders, that\u2019s the goal here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s done here, this is it for him, this is the end of the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s on, Saturday night he\u2019s getting walked around that octagon like a dog and put to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-related-stories\" data-component-name=\"sdc-article-related-stories\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-related-stories__content\">During a recent interview, Jake Paul accused Conor McGregor of being insecure and hinted at a future boxing match. McGregor returns to the UFC on Saturday night to avenge his defeat to Dustin Poirier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After McGregor faced Poirier at a press conference on Thursday, YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul commented that he could tell Conor had lost his \u2018it\u2019.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Paul told Sky Sports: \u201cHe no longer speaks from a place of authenticity and you can tell he\u2019s trying to convince himself of his own lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we fight I will further expose him for the fraud he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor faces Dustin Poirier in the trilogy MMA bout at UFC 264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2244,2245,979,2246,2247,2112,776,108],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-jake-paul","tag-las-vegas","tag-mma","tag-paradise","tag-sky-sports","tag-ufc","tag-youtube"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}