Dustin Poirier has admitted that he would come out of retirement to take on Nate Diaz.
This past Saturday, Nate Diaz competed in MMA for the first time since 2022 when he took on Mike Perry in a co-headliner fight on MVP MMA‘s inaugural event on Netflix.
As combat sports fans have become used to throughout his career, Diaz’s face was left a bloody mess and during the interval between round 2 and 3, his corner team waved the fight off.
Following what was a disappointing performance from the Stockton native, he found himself on the receiving end of some criticism from Charles Oliveira, but the Brazilian isn’t the only one to flame his performance.
Dustin Poirier still interested in clash against Diaz despite criticism of his performance
Over the past year or so, Diaz has had somewhat of an ongoing feud with former UFC BMF and interim lightweight champion, Dustin Poirier.
Ahead of ‘The Diamond’s’ retirement fight, Diaz reignited the pairs feud by reminding the world of when the pair were previously booked to fight.
The pair were scheduled to fight each other at UFC 230 in 2018, but Poirier withdrew after suffering a hip injury.
Since then, though, the two have continuously been linked together, and Poirier seemed confident in fighting Diaz before his career was all said and done.
And despite retiring from the sport last year, the Louisianan has maintained that he is still interested in fighting Diaz, even after flaming his performance this past weekend.
“We’ve been circling each other for years and years, we could’ve fought and he knows that, I wish he would be honest with the fans and say he pulled out or couldn’t come to terms with the UFC,” Poirier said during the recent Deep Waters Podcast.
“But after the way he looked on Saturday night, he can’t talk right now man, he needs to take a break, he needs to go and get some sleep and rest, not me. He looked dog s—. He looked horrible. He looked like he didn’t want to be in there, he looked like a punching bag, he was off balance, his timing was horrible.
“I mean, dude, when someone loses, I don’t wanna s— on them too hard but he knows (I’m gonna). He looked horrible, man.”
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Before Poirier can return to any level of competition, though, he will have to return to some sort of drug testing as following his retirement, he was open with the fact that he was going to start using steroids.
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2026-05-19 03:00:00
