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Dustin Poirier Not Gunning For Revenge Vs. Conor McGregor

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Dustin Poirier hears all the talk about Conor McGregor possibly coming to the lightweight division and challenging for the UFC title.

But Poirier isn’t concerning himself with avenging a loss to McGregor in the future. Instead, he is taking the wait-and-see approach.

Poirier headlines this Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 94 card vs. Michael Johnson. The event airs live on FOX Sports 1.

“My goal isn’t to avenge losses,” Poirier said during a recent interview on UFC Tonight. “My goal is the title and if he’s there, what a great Cinderella story that would be.”

“The Diamond” believes he will do nothing but dominate Johnson over the course of their 25-minute lightweight battle.

“This fight’s 25 minutes, so I’m not going to put myself in a dangerous position to look for the takedown,” he said. “If this fight hits the mat, he’s getting tapped.

“He’s a strong-willed fighter. He sticks to the game plan and executes. I don’t think he’s great anywhere – I’ll outclass him everywhere.”

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Dustin Poirier hears all the talk about Conor McGregor possibly coming to the lightweight division and challenging for the UFC title.

But Poirier isn’t concerning himself with avenging a loss to McGregor in the future. Instead, he is taking the wait-and-see approach.

Poirier headlines this Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 94 card vs. Michael Johnson. The event airs live on FOX Sports 1.

“My goal isn’t to avenge losses,” Poirier said during a recent interview on UFC Tonight. “My goal is the title and if he’s there, what a great Cinderella story that would be.”

“The Diamond” believes he will do nothing but dominate Johnson over the course of their 25-minute lightweight battle.

“This fight’s 25 minutes, so I’m not going to put myself in a dangerous position to look for the takedown,” he said. “If this fight hits the mat, he’s getting tapped.

“He’s a strong-willed fighter. He sticks to the game plan and executes. I don’t think he’s great anywhere – I’ll outclass him everywhere.”

UFC 203 Fight Motion Slow-Mo Highlights: Miocic-Overeem, Punk-Gall (Video)

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On Tuesday, UFC continued their seemingly never-ending roll-out of post-UFC 203 content after their big pay-per-view event at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio this past Saturday evening.

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On Tuesday, UFC continued their seemingly never-ending roll-out of post-UFC 203 content after their big pay-per-view event at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio this past Saturday evening.

Featured above is the latest video the company released after the event, which looks at some of the exciting action and bigger moments that played out inside the Octagon over the weekend.

“UFC 203 Fight Motion,” embedded above via the official UFC YouTube channel, are slow-motion highlights of many of Saturday’s fights, including the wild heavyweight rematch between former champion Fabricio Werdum and Travis “Hapa” Browne, the Octagon debut of former WWE Superstar CM Punk against “Dana White: Lookin’ For A Fight’s” Mickey Gall and the brief-but-thrilling UFC Heavyweight Championship main event between hometown favorite Stipe Miocic and Alistair Overeem.

For actual full fight video highlights of the aforementioned top three fights from the UFC 203 PPV main card from this past weekend, click here.

Jon Jones On Possible Stipe Miocic Fight: “Challenge Of A Lifetime”

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Jon Jones remains temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for his use of a banned substance earlier this year.

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Jon Jones remains temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for his use of a banned substance earlier this year.

But that doesn’t mean “Bones” can’t get social media and MMA forums talking with his comments.

After watching Stipe Miocic finish Alistair Overeem to defend his UFC heavyweight title at UFC 203, Jones commented that a possible bout with Miocic would be a “challenge of a lifetime.”

Of course, he’s discussed the potential move to heavyweight before either on a full-time or fight-by-fight basis. First things, first are for Jones to be cleared and allowed to even fight again.

Also, he did correct his own mistake in the tweet, saying he meant “it” and not “I” before replying “Haha screw it, saying I works too.”

Alexander Gustafsson To Jon Jones: No Immediate Title Shot Upon Return

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Alexander Gustafsson spent countless months training for Jon Jones before going 25 minutes with him inside the Octagon.

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Alexander Gustafsson spent countless months training for Jon Jones before going 25 minutes with him inside the Octagon.

Gustafsson, who recently defeated Jan Blachowicz, believes that the former champion should not receive an immediate shot at the title whenever it is he returns to action. Jones failed a pre-fight drug test earlier this year and was removed from a planned championship match with Daniel Cormier.

“It wouldn’t be fair, giving him a title shot,” Gustafsson said earlier this week on The MMA Hour (thanks to MMAFighting for transcribing). “I’m not saying I’m going to get it. I’m just saying, after everything that happened, it’s not fair to other fighters too, who’ve been working their asses off and they’ve been fighting each other. So, not a title shot right away. Just give him a fun fight first and that’s it.”

Gustafsson, meanwhile, stands at an interesting position in the light heavyweight division. He has lost to Jones, Cormier and top contender Anthony Johnson, but has shined vs. the rest of the division.

“I’m up for suggestions (for my next opponent), so why not?” Gustafsson said. “But let’s see what they say. I’m up for suggestions, so whatever they give me, I’m down with. A second fight with Jones, who knows. It’s going to be good though.”

Former UFC Title Challenger Sounds Off On CM Punk’s Salary

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Cat Zingano isn’t too happy that CM Punk was given a large payday by the UFC for his recent MMA debut.

And “Alpha” went on social media to defend her feelings.

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Cat Zingano isn’t too happy that CM Punk was given a large payday by the UFC for his recent MMA debut.

And “Alpha” went on social media to defend her feelings.

Zingano makes several good points, but the fact of that matter is that Punk brought a huge name-value with him to the UFC from his days in the WWE. That is why the UFC was willing to give him such financial considerations despite having never competed before inside the cage.

Video: WWE’s Booker T & Other Wrestling Stars React Moments After CM Punk’s Loss

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Moments after CM Punk lost in devastating fashion to Mickey Gall at the 2:14 mark of the first-round of their co-featured bout at Saturday’s UFC 203 pay-per-view in Cleveland, Ohio (video highlights here), the reaction o…

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Moments after CM Punk lost in devastating fashion to Mickey Gall at the 2:14 mark of the first-round of their co-featured bout at Saturday’s UFC 203 pay-per-view in Cleveland, Ohio (video highlights here), the reaction of several WWE Superstars and wrestling legends was filmed at a local independent wrestling show in Texas.

Featured below is video footage shot by the folks at Title Match Wrestling at Booker T’s “Reality Of Wrestling” event, which also went down this past Saturday evening at the World Gym Arena in Texas City.

The video includes reactions to CM Punk’s one-sided loss in his Octagon debut moments after it happened from WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T, his former “Harlem Heat” tag-team partner and brother Stevie Ray, former longtime WWE executive Bruce Prichard (aka “Brother Love”) and former WWE and TNA wrestler MVP.

For more reactions from the wrestling world to CM Punk’s UFC debut loss, including a ton of comments from current WWE Superstars, click here.

For video of UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor’s reaction to CM Punk’s loss at UFC 203, click here.