NEW alternate angle of Conor McGregor
threatening to kill Dustin and Jolie Poirier “in their sleep” and
makes gun sign to his head:“In your sleep you’re getting it, in your sleep you’re dead, you
and your Mrs, it ain’t over” pic.twitter.com/r6nmjZAjQb— Out Of Context MMA (@oocmma)
July 12, 2021
After his victory over Conor
McGregor in the UFC 264 headliner, Dustin
Poirier revealed that his opponent crossed the line with some
of his trash talk in the build-up to their fight.
The American Top Team product said that McGregor not only
insinuated that Poirier’s wife, Jolie, attempted to reach out to
him, but the Irish star also made multiple threats on his
opponent’s life. The trilogy bout ended after one round when
McGregor stepped awkwardly after missing a punch and broke his left
leg, which prompted speculation that a fourth bout could be in
store down the road.
“We are going to fight again whether it’s in the Octagon or on the
sidewalk,” Poirier said at Saturday’s post-fight press conference.
You don’t say the stuff he said. … My wife is solid as a rock. I’m
not worried about that. That’s noise. He was saying he was going to
kill me. You don’t say stuff like that – that he was going to
murder me. You don’t say stuff like that. You don’t say stuff about
people’s wives either, but I know that that’s zero-chance. There is
a chance somebody could die. You don’t say that. You don’t wish
that on anybody.”
In a video angle released on Twitter following UFC 264, it appears
that McGregor continued with a similar line of trash talk after the
fight. In the video, where McGregor is seated near the fence while
awaiting a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, the former
two-division champ can be overheard saying “In your sleep, you’re
getting it … in your sleep, you’re getting it … in your sleep,
you’re getting it … it ain’t over.”
The Twitter post also claims that McGregor says “You’re dead” and
references “You and your Mrs.,” but the noise at the T-Mobile Arena
makes it nearly impossible to confirm those comments. Poirier
nonetheless heard enough from McGregor both before and after their
trilogy fight to believe his rival crossed the line.
“Earlier this week, he was saying he was going to murder me and I
was going to not make it home and stuff like that,” Poirier said on
the ESPN+ post-fight show. “That’s what really upset me this week.
Even when he was sitting there on the ground, with his busted leg,
he was looking at me like, ‘I’m going to kill you.’ Like, what is
wrong with you bro? This is a sport. This is a fight. We can
dislike each other, but you don’t say s—t like that. I don’t play
those kind of games.”