The trilogy is set to be completed this coming July 10 in Las Vegas as Dustin Poirier will take on Conor McGregor for a third time, according to UFC boss Dana White who confirmed the bout on Twitter.
White further made mention the fight at the T-Mobile Arena will be at “100 percent capacity” (despite the ongoing pandemic) and that tickets will go on sale this week.
The rubber match comes on the heels of doubt surrounding the face-off between these two after McGregor failed to ante up a promised charity donation of $500,000. This in turn caused a blow-up on Twitter resulting in McGregor threatening to pull out of UFC 264.
In any sense, the potential super spreader that will be UFC 264 comes after Poirier’s second-round TKO of McGregor at UFC 257 in Abu Dhabi marking the first time McGregor had been stopped by strikes in an MMA bout.
Prior to that, McGregor took the first meeting between the two in 2014 at UFC 178 via a first-round TKO. McGregor would eventually go on to win the UFC featherweight title while Poirier switched to the lightweight division culminating in a matchup against Khabib Nurmagomedov.
