Conor McGregor has dragged the wife of Dustin Poirier into their heated rivalry
‘Let the mind-games begin!’ Conor McGregor is hardly a few days away from what could be a career-defining match for him. The Irishman is set to take on Dustin Poirier for the third time in his MMA career.
With the scores in their rivalry even, the winner of the fight will get to settle the score as well as get a shot at the lightweight title against newly-crowned lightweight champion Charles Oliveira.
The pair last met just 6 months ago on the 24th of January at UFC 257. McGregor was not at his elemental trash-talking best. He was quiet and respectful towards Poirier.
However, McGregor ended up losing the fight via. second-round knockout. Following the loss, McGregor announced that he would not be ‘Mr. Nice Guy’ again, and it has been showing of late.
More recently, he took his mind-games to another level as he took to Twitter to share a screenshot of Poirier’s wife Jolie attempting to DM him.
The image has to be a morphed one without any question, and it is just one of McGregor’s antics trying to get into Poirier’s head ahead of the fight.
Conor McGregor channels his inner Jake Paul as he taunts Dustin Poirier
In a post, McGregor recently shared on Instagram, he brought out a ‘Jake Paul’ reference. Sharing a photo of himself landing a clean right hand on Poirier during UFC 257, McGregor captioned the post: “Gotcha Ears.”
The caption was in reference to YouTube star Jake Paul stealing Floyd Mayweather’s hat at a pre-fight press conference between his brother Logan and Mayweather.
Despite being beaten to a pulp by Mayweather’s entourage, Paul went home and started a merch line under the name Gotcha Hat.
Paul was proud that McGregor had used his reference as he dropped a comment on ‘The Irishman’s post that read:
“I’m glad I could teach you something old man.”
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