Conor McGregor tried to kick Dustin Poirier at the stare downs after the final presser before their third bout this weekend.
They are the big starts of the . The pre-fight was at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
You’re getting walked like a dog in that octagon on Saturday night!” McGregor shouted. “You’re only a little b*tch. Your wife is your husband. You’re only a little b*tch of a thing, a silly little hillbilly. Jolie’s wife! You little b*tch of a thing.”
On the other side of the stage, Poirier was all smiles as he answered back at McGregor’s taunts.
“You used to be a lot better than that,” Poirier said. “The trash talk was a lot better than that. F*cking weak.”
“Cause he got knocked the f*ck out,” Poirier said about the timing of McGregor’s attitude change. “Not McGregor fast … McGregor sleep.”
“I’m going to go through his head,” McGregor shouted. “Put holes in him and take it off his shoulders. That’s the goal here. He’s done. This is it for him. This is the end of the road. Even after that last fight, ‘Oh I don’t love this anymore, I don’t love doing this.’ He knew what was coming. He knew the smacks he took.
“So it’s on now. Saturday night, he’s getting walked around that octagon like a dog and put to sleep.”
The verbal abuse didn’t slow down either with McGregor calling Poirier everything from “a corpse” to “a little fake c*nt” as he attempted to discount what happened in their rematch earlier this year.
“I don’t give a f*ck about him to be honest,” he said. “I don’t give a rat’s ass about him. He’s Buster Douglas. He’s Buster Douglas is what he is and that’s the way he’s going to go down.
“He’s going to be known for that. It was a fluke win, and I’m going to correct it on Saturday night.”
Of course, McGregor denied asking anybody for assistance, especially when it came to his boxing skills.
“I sparked Paulie Malignaggi in sparring in the lead up to fight Floyd [Mayweather], one of the better boxers on this f*cking planet, you stupid toss pot,” McGregor said. “We never rang anyone to ask anyone for any bleeding info on you, you dope.”
“I beat him,” Poirier said. “It’s a fight. It’s up to you to get prepared. I beat him. What’s his excuse going to be on Saturday is what I want to know.”
Calm, cool and collected until the end, Poirier ultimately promised that nothing McGregor said had gotten to him.
“I don’t hate anybody,” Poirier said. “I’m in a different place mentally. Respect to him and everything he’s done. I just don’t care about this stuff anymore. I don’t care about this.”
