Sharing on his personal page, Dustin Poirier said he was just hospitalized. The disease situation of the former UFC champion does not change better after the first day, so the doctors recommend that he should continue to stay in the hospital. Poirier also said his situation was “more serious”.
Sources close to Dustin Poirier said he was hospitalized for staphylococcal infections. Typically, this disease only needs to be treated by taking or injecting antibiotics. However, the Poirier body has symptoms of drug resistance, so the disease changes in a bad direction.
In the past, another former UFC champion was also hospitalized in danger, Robert Whittaker. “Death” had to have an emergency treatment in early 2018 due to stomach pain. Luckily for this boxer, he was then well treated, his health recovered and soon returned to play.
As one of the most popular boxers of UFC, Dustin Poirier is 33 years old. He has a 37 professional MMA match, including 29 victories (15 no, 7 submission), 7 defeats and 1 match that is not recognized. Dustin Poirier has more than 1 decade of competition in UFC.
The peak of Dustin Poirier arrived in April 2019, when he won against Max Holloway to win the Lightweight UFC championship. After that, he played with Khabib Nurmagomedov to compete for the official belt but failed with the Submission in the third half.
In December 2021, Poirier continued to lose to Charles Oliveira in the UFC Championship match against Lightweight. Poirier's biggest imprint in the UFC arena is 3 fiery matches with Conor McGregor, where he has twice the convincing victory over the “scandalous guy”.