“There were 12 or 11 days left until the fight when they called me. Then I just got to Florida, stayed there for about five days, trained with the team.
I came home and saw a call, it was UFC vice president Hunter Campbell. I told him his timing was good. I thought it was fate. He asked me about my weight, I assured that I could do it in 11 days. He asked me one day.
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But I didn’t receive a response. Then I wrote to him that I was ready to do it, but he remained silent. And then came the news from Volkanovski. Campbell didn’t promise me it would be me. I think he asked for a day to wait for a response from Volkanovski,” MMA Fighting quotes Poirier.
Source: Sport
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