MMA News Roundup – Dana White Makes Confession on Conor McGregor and Joe Rogan, Team Khabib Gives Update on Islam Makhachev Training; Dustin Poirier Reveals KO Plan for UFC 302

A confession from the UFC supremo Dana White about Conor McGregor and Joe Rogan, a crucial update about Islam Makhachev‘s title defense, and a gameplan straight out of the books of Dustin Poirier; the last few hours have been a rollercoaster ride for the MMA world. As we move forward, let’s look at the latest developments of the MMA alleyways.

We will start our journey with news about Dana White’s honest opinions about Joe Rogan and Conor McGregor. We will then shift our focus to Islam Makhachev’s training update and will finally conclude with information about Dustin Poirier’s knockout strategy.

Dana White’s most treasured people: Joe Rogan and Conor McGregor

Moving forward, Dana White had a conversation about Conor McGregor. The UFC Supremo stated that the advent of McGregor in the promotion proved that even a guy living off of welfare cheques can be a world-renowned fighter if he has focus. “You know the story of Conor McGregor being on welfare and all this other stuff. It’s just another thing that goes to show you can take somebody that didn’t go to college and didn’t—Conor is a tremendous businessman. “Conor is a tremendous businessman. I mean, Conor is one of the best partners, if not the best partner, we’ve ever had when it comes to being in business with somebody” said White.

Well, getting such praise from the UFC supremo himself is quite a thing. Now, we have to move forward to UFC 302 main event news.

Khabib Nurmagomedov is training Islam Makhachev

Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier are about to clash against each other on June 1 at UFC 302 for the lightweight gold. The reigning champion, Makhachev will be defending his title for the very first time against a legit lightweight and this has forced the former lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagoemdov to come back to the MMA world to train his protege against his former opponent.

Nurmagomedov fought and defeated Dustin Poirier back in 2019 and defeated him by rear naked choke. Nonetheless, the undefeated fighter has joined Makhachev’s training and he has been with them since the last few days. Their head coach, Javier Mendez recently uploaded a video on his Instagram handle where he gave an update about the training. The video showed the entire team of Khabib training in unison.

Mendez captioned it as “Team practice with Coach @khabib_nurmagomedov team loyalty and bonding is at its highest level with these guys Father’s Plan.” Well, we are just eight days away from the clash and we will see if the ‘Eagle’s training has any effect on Makhachev. Now that we know about Makhacehv let’s focus on his opponent Dustin Poirier who seems to have a plan for his opponent.

Dustin Poirier plans to knockout Islam Makhachev

Islam Makhachev is not only the lightweight champion but also the number one guy in the pound-4-pound rankings and he is about to face a man who is probably the uncrowded prince of the division aka, Dustin Poirier. ‘Diamond’ has been one of the most technical and powerful fighters in the promotion and with a record of  30 victories and 8 defeats, he proves his worth.  Makhachev in a statement said that he would submit Poirier in the match and defend his belt but seems like ‘Diamond’ has other plans for him

Poirier is finally going to clash for the lightweight belt and according to ‘Diamond’ he is about to knock Makhachev out of the park. “I’m going to knock Islam Makhachev unconscious, and the ref is going to pull me off of him,” promised the 35-year-old while speaking to Yahoo Sports.

Islam Makhachev has yet to face defeat after 2015. Will Poirier be the second man to do so? State your thoughts in the comments below.