ABU DHABI – For Dustin Poirier , everything was different about his rematch with Conor McGregor . Poirier, who had previously lost to Mcgregor by TKO in 2014, avenged his defeat by putting away the Irish superstar in the second round of their main event bout at Saturday’s UFC 257 event in Abu Dhabi. Poirier became the first man to stop McGregor with strikes and set the score even. The result, the weight class, the preparation and many more things were different this time around fighting McGregor. But perhaps the biggest one was how Poirier felt inside the octagon.
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