{"id":483764,"date":"2024-06-02T05:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T09:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483764"},"modified":"2024-06-02T05:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T09:12:33","slug":"makhachev-submits-poirier-to-remain-the-champion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/makhachev-submits-poirier-to-remain-the-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhachev submits Poirier to remain the champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier is considered as the best UFC warrior to never been an undisputed champ, and Islam Makhachev made sure that didn\u2019t change by submitting him in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round to keep the lightweight title during UFC 302 at the Prudential Center.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Number One P4P continues his reign \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MAKHACHEVMMA<\/a> defeats Dustin Poirier by submission to REMAIN the lightweight champion of the world!<\/p>\n<p>[ B2YB <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slatemilk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SlateMilk<\/a> ] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hx0nC29DzA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hx0nC29DzA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1797133221609586826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Russian had to show his best vs. a resilient fighter who did what he could to defeat the champ and number 1 pound-for-pound fighter in front of a public that cheered for Dustin to achieve his dream.<\/p>\n<p>However, Islam is used to be the bad guy in the story and didn\u2019t affect him as he defended the title.<\/p>\n<p>For 4 and a half rounds, Dustin fended off several takedown attempts, escaped submissions, and pulled himself off the canvas when things were not looking great. But Islam in the end caught Poirier during a scramble with a phenomenal ankle pick that gave him the opportunity to snatch a d&#8217;arce choke and win by submission at 2:42 in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poirier fought extremely well,&#8221; Makhachev shared after the triumph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best in the world \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAKHACHEVMMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MAKHACHEVMMA<\/a> remains the lightweight champion with a submission victory! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC302?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC302<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LpSwj8PH0T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LpSwj8PH0T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1797133934519620084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Poirier is considered as the best UFC warrior to never been an undisputed champ, and Islam Makhachev made sure that didn\u2019t change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16834,17372,18148],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[20730,20511,1093],"acf":{"announce":"Islam beat Dustin in the final 5th round of the match.","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\/483764"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483766,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483764\/revisions\/483766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483764"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483764"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}