Former UFC fighter Yves Edwards revealed that Dustin Poirier sustained a rib injury two weeks before his lightweight title fight against Islam Makhachev.
MMA Today quotes Edwards as saying:
I know Makhachev was also not 100 percent. Nobody goes into a fight 100 percent, but he hurt his ribs like two weeks before the fight and hadn't wrestled or grappled for two and a half weeks. Man, you wrestled like that against that guy with hurt ribs, okay. I'm impressed.
Makhachev and Poirier took place on June 2 in the main event of UFC 302. In this fight, which was stopped in the fifth round, Islam won by choke and defended the championship belt in the lightweight category. He has 26 wins and one loss in mixed martial arts. Dustin has 30 wins and nine losses on his record, with one more of his fights being ruled a no contest.
