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Translation / cliffs for the sherbros
About the poirier fight:
- He was originally aiming for Dariush or Hooker, but went for Poirier as a long shot and didn't tell Benoit that he was working on it.
- It took a month worth of negotiations to make the fight official. There were hold ups on Poirier's side, which he understands because if he was Poirier's manager, he wouldn't accept the fight.
- Mentioned that there's one sure way to make fighters accept fights, and it is to give them more money. He presumes that Poirier will make a large amount of money to "be put to sleep by bsd" and says that we will know when we see the fighters salaries released after the fight.
- Mentions that a large part of the reason this fight came to fruition is because of Benoit's performances and the fact that the UFC have fallen for Benoit's story and charm.
- The idea for 5 rounds came a little bit more from his side (benoit's manager's). He says Benoit is someone who runs through his opponents, and the more time you give him, the more ground he will take. Also mentions that with how they fight, he doesn't see the fight going 5 rounds anyways.
- First they need to win, but he'd like it to be for a title shot, admits that it's complicated though.
- Will be difficult to get a title shot if Islam stays champion because you must not believe what islam tweeted about his schedule of fighting Gaethje and then the winner of Arman/oliveira -- he is a guy that fights once per year, he likes sleeping with his belt and keeping it for a very long time.
- Says islam will fight after Ramadan, then he won't fight again until the next year.
- Mentions Islam hasn't defended his belt against lightweights yet and he's a guy that doesn't like to put himself in danger.
- Says that Islam was very smart to prolong his schedule and let his most dangerous opponent (I think he means arman, could be oliveira though) be booked by the UFC, and then right when arman and oliveira gets booked, say, "oh, I'm ready to fight!"
- Believes Islam is very calculative in these regards.
He talks about other things as well, but not exactly relevant to me so I won't translate.
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