It'll be the third fight between the two, with the ledger currently standing at one a piece.
McGregor defeated Poirier at Featherweight back in 2014, with a first round KO.
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Poirier returned the favour earlier this year at UFC 267 with a second round finish.
The third contest will be the rubber match,and will almost certainly determine who
fights the current UFC Lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira, next.


UFC 264, featuring a rematch between the UFC's biggest star Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier,
is now only weeks away.
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and the expansion of the sport of MMA, but bad news for consumer choice.
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A Conor McGregor press conference is almost as heavily anticipated as the
fights themselves, but we still don't know exactly when this press conference
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will take place. It's a safe bet the UFC will set one up during fight week.
Expect it to take place between the July 5 and July 8.
We'll embed the video here closer to the event.



Either way there is extra heat on this fight. After McGregor promised a $500,000 donation
to Poirier's Good Fight Foundation, Poirier took to Twitter when the donation was delayed,
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which started a back-and-forth feud between the two. While their second fight had a cordial
and respectful lead up, the third fight will no doubt be a far more personal affair.