UFC lightweight Beneil Dariush wants Dustin Poirier to move out of the way if he won’t be facing other elite fighters. Poirier recently claimed that he was not interested in fighting Dariush, which Dariush was baffled by in a recent interview with Submission Radio. To Dariush, if Dustin Poirier doesn’t want to face up and coming fighters, he should simply retire.
“I wish he’d be a little bit more clear as to, what is it that doesn’t excite him about me? Are my fights not exciting enough? Or is it a skill issue? Or is it just because I don’t have the name? Because if it’s just because of the name, he should really consider — and I say this as nicely as possible, I’m not trying to be a d***, but he should really consider retiring. Because if you’re going to look for the names, if you’re going to look to fight only guys that the name will get you, bro, there’s dogs coming. There’s dogs, and they’re young and they’re hungry. They’re looking to kill.
Dariush: Poirier Should Retire If He Won’t Fight Elite Contenders
There’s guys out there already and there’s not a whole lot of Michael Chandlers left out there in the division. How many more fights like that can you get? You’re going to have to fight one of these dogs, and currently I’m at the forefront of these guys. So either step up or think about doing something else. He seems successful so, if you’re not genuinely — fighting is not a sport you want to be half-hearted about. So if he’s not 100 percent in, he should really reconsider what he’s doing.”
Dariush continued, pointing out who he wanted to fight and why. “I’m like, dang, man. These are guys I genuinely want to fight.
The reason I fought Gamrot wasn’t because I had to fight Gamrot. It wasn’t like they were making me fight him. I fought Gamrot because, bro, look at the fight he just has with Arman [Tsarukyan]. What a frickin’ fight. It got my blood pumping, so I was like, let me fight this guy. It’s the same thing when I watch Dustin Poirier fight Michael Chandler. It gets me pumped and I want to fight these guys. They’re great. They do certain things so well and it would be great to compete against them, but you can’t do anything about it when they don’t want to do it.”
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