Dustin Poirier: No thanks to Michael Chandler, interest in Conor McGregor trilogy or Nate Diaz

ABU DHABI — For the casual viewer, the results seem as simple as adding one and one and getting two: Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler both looked sensational in their respective lightweight bouts at UFC 257, so why not match them up next, presumably with the vacant championship on the line?

But while Poirier’s second-round knockout of Conor McGregor and Chandler’s first-round finish of Dan Hooker in his debut seem to point in this direction, one of the participants isn’t too enthused about the idea.