{"id":123487,"date":"2018-07-29T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/?p=123487"},"modified":"2018-07-29T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:39:16","slug":"ufc-fox-30-dustin-poirier-tkos-eddie-alvarez-wild-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/2018\/07\/29\/ufc-fox-30-dustin-poirier-tkos-eddie-alvarez-wild-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC on FOX 30: Dustin Poirier TKOs Eddie Alvarez In Wild Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"\/tag\/ufc\/\" title=\"UFC\">UFC<\/a><\/span> had another exciting event in Calgary, Canada. In the main event of UFC on FOX 30, <strong>Dustin Poirier<\/strong> prevailed in the rematch with former UFC lightweight champion <strong>Eddie Alvarez<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, their first match ended in a controversial finish and referee Herb Dean declared the fight no contest. The rematch almost ended up being a replicate when Alvarez dropped an illegal elbow and even stuck his fingers in his opponent ear in the second round.  <\/p>\n<p>During the post-fight press conference Poirier said,  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t want to say somebody\u2019s a dirty fighter, but the first fight, you kneed me; the second fight, you tried to elbow me illegally and you gave me a wet willy. We\u2019ve got to draw the line somewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poirier defeated Alvarez in the second round via TKO, which turned on a restart after Alvarez landed an illegal 12-to-6 downward elbow. Poirier is now at most one fight away from a UFC lightweight title shot following his fifth consecutive victory. <\/p>\n<p>However, Poirier believes he is already next. Check out what he had to say in his post-fight interview inside the Octagon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the UFC had another exciting event in Calgary, Canada. In the main event of UFC on FOX 30, Dustin Poirier prevailed in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[112],"tags":[4369,3471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123491,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123487\/revisions\/123491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}