{"id":394610,"date":"2022-11-13T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394610"},"modified":"2022-11-13T01:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T06:02:52","slug":"poirier-chokes-out-chandler-at-ufc-281","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/poirier-chokes-out-chandler-at-ufc-281\/","title":{"rendered":"Poirier chokes out Chandler at UFC 281"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier pulled out a huge finish to stop fellow lightweight contender Michael Chandler with a third-round submission (rear-naked choke) at frantic UFC 281 fight on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dustin Poirier taps Michael Chandler!!!!!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjthOldklA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EjthOldklA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MMA mania (@mmamania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmamania\/status\/1591650463845584904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both lightweight fighters came out firing in the Madison Square Garden in New York City, showing dominant moments in stand-up exchanges and battles on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Chandler who pulled away early with heavy punches along the cage. Poirier, a U.F.C. veteran and former interim champion, ate a lot of hard shots only to return the favor towards the end of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>He unloaded a barrage of strikes that knocked Chandler down and had him staggering around the Octagon. Chandler barely survived before the round came to a close.<\/p>\n<p id=\"q6sHpK\">Chandler, who joined the U.F.C. in 2021, went to his wrestling for a quick takedown into the second round. Poirier welcomed the action as he sliced Chandler up with elbows and punches.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler eventually reversed and took Poirier\u2019s back. \u201cDiamond\u201d escaped, but Chandler maintained top control for the rest of the round.<\/p>\n<p id=\"OObmKh\">In Round 3, Chandler waited for another takedown. In the midst of slamming Poirier to the canvas, \u201cDiamond\u201d reversed and took Chandler\u2019s back. Poirier worked the hands and found a window of opportunity to sink in the rear-naked choke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every bit as good as advertised  \ud83d\udc8e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC281?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC281<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X95cHC0av7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/X95cHC0av7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1591650960312786944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have some jiu-jitsu!\u201d Poirier said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing he throws looping (punches). If he threw straight, he\u2019d probably have gotten me out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poirier will likely earn a title shot in the near future or perhaps a fight against Oliveira, who is now the No. 1 contender who lost the belt last month to Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n<p>The featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovskiwill challenge Makhachev for the lightweight belt in February in an attempt to become a simultaneous two-division champ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier pulled out a huge finish to stop fellow lightweight contender Michael Chandler with a third-round submission (rear-naked choke) at frantic UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16834,16835],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The lightweight fight carries big implications in the U.F.C.\u2019s loaded 155-pound division","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394610"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394610"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}