{"id":93862,"date":"2014-12-19T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/?p=93862"},"modified":"2014-12-27T23:12:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:12:24","slug":"dustin-poiriers-days-featherweight-over-resume-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/2014\/12\/19\/dustin-poiriers-days-featherweight-over-resume-lightweight\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC: Dustin Poirier&#8217;s Days In Featherweight Are Over, Resumes As A Lightweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dustin-poirier-ufc.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dustin-poirier-ufc-642x426.jpg\" alt=\"Dustin Poirier\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After his first-round TKO loss to the Irish <span class='wp_keywordlink'><a href=\"\/tag\/conor-mcgregor\/\" title=\"MMA Fighter Conor McGregor\">Conor McGregor<\/a><\/span> in September at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/ufc-178-full-backstage-exchange-tim-kennedy-yoel-romero\/90434\/\" title=\"UFC 178: Full Backstage Exchange Between Tim Kennedy And Yoel Romero\">UFC 178<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/quote-day-diego-brandao-wanted-stab-dustin-poirier-pen\/75975\/\" title=\"Quote Of The Day: Diego Brandao Wanted To Stab Dustin Poirier With A Pen\">Dustin Poirier<\/a> won\u2019t be competing at 145 pounds anymore. He recently confirmed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/12\/19\/7420699\/dustin-poirier-explains-why-hes-returning-to-lightweight\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a> that his days at featherweight are now over, and will return as a lightweight for his next fight inside the Octagon. <\/p>\n<p>However, don\u2019t be mistaken that his decision has anything to do with McGregor, Poirier explained it has everything to do the with weight cut:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m big, the cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent. It&#8217;s sucks to drop out of the rankings, but it has to be done. I&#8217;m 180 right now and in great shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2015, his goal is to give MMA fans the fight they want to see, which he feels is at 155 pounds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to fight the fights that fans want to see, I&#8217;m excited to reintroduce myself at a more natural weight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Been a long time coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his first-round TKO loss to the Irish Conor McGregor in September at UFC 178, Dustin Poirier won\u2019t be competing at 145 pounds anymore.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[4369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93862"}],"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=93862"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94071,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93862\/revisions\/94071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}