I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.
“I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.”
— Dustin Poirier · Belt
The World Motivation
I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.
“I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.”
— Dustin Poirier · Belt
I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.
I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.
My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.
My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.
Ben Askren, the only thing we have in common... I have a real belt. He has some belts from back in the day that don't even matter anymore.
I always want to fight for the belt. I don't really care.
Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.
The path to the belt, I'm trying to make it as clear as possible.
Obviously I've fought Aldo twice, and Conor for the fake belt.