Although Dustin Poirier lost a round on judges’ scorecards in his most recent performance, he earned what increasingly is a rare nod in his sport: a 10-8 round. Poirier defeated top-tier featherweight Erik Koch by unanimous decision at UFC 164, and by most accounts, it was a solid victory. “I felt really good going in,” he told MMAjunkie Radio. “I had a full camp, I was very focused, and I was in shape and ready to fight. That was a fight I had wanted. I wanted to fight a top-10 guy, and I went in there and performed well.” But the 24-year-old fighter is convinced he can do better
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UFC 168’s Dustin Poirier aims to make previous strong performance look bad vs. Brandao – MMA Junkie