Dustin Poirier’s fight against Michael Chandler seems to have caused more problems between the two than it solved. Although Poirier won the fight vis submission, he claimed that Chandler stuck his fingers in Poirier’s mouth during an early submission attempt of his own as well as deliberately blowing his blood-filled nose all over Poirier during a grappling exchange. Now, in an interview on The MMA Hour, Poirier admitted that he fought a little dirty himself, biting “the sh*t out of” Chandler’s fingers before coming to his senses.
“I bit the s*** out of his fingers. But I had my mouthguard in, so only my bottom teeth could get him. He didn’t even try to pull it out when I bit. … In the moment, when I was biting down on his fingers, I kind of stopped biting like, ‘Oh s***, what am I doing?’ Reality hit me. I’m glad I bit him, but it was an instinct.
Poirier Admits to Biting Chandler
Just be honest. It’s whatever. And I’m sure he didn’t plan on doing it, but in the heat of the moment, you’re fighting for your life, bro. Just like when I bit him. I didn’t plan on biting him. I was like, ‘Oh s***, I’m f****** really biting this guy!’ It’s war, it’s fighting. Things happen in there. But admit it.”
Poirier continued, describing the moment that Chandler sprayed the contents of his sinuses all over him. “I don’t care what the f*** the guy says in interviews, or the guy he’s trying to portray. He 100 percent did. He 100 percent did. When I was elbowing him, I was calling him a nasty motherf*****. That’s what I kept telling him. …
I can hear him blow his nose. He did it hard. Let me tell you this, if you go back and watch the replay of the blood falling out of his nose, yeah, it was leaking, it might be broken or whatever. But when he got it lined up where he wanted it, those huge globs that came out, they didn’t fall out, he forced them out.
And it’s fighting. It’s war. Just like the hat said, it’s war. I’ve done it to guys before. I did it to Joe Duffy in Vegas, when he shattered my nose. I was trying to bleed in his eyes and throw elbows. It’s just fighting. But don’t lie about it.”
In the end, however, Poirier admitted that he loved every moment of the fight, nasty or not. “I love that stuff.
Talking about fighting, when I say I don’t love this no more and stuff like that, it’s a lot of the outside stuff that I’m speaking on. That stuff is why I still fight, because I love that.”
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