After a Twitter argument between Conor McGregor and Lafayette native Dustin Poirier, it looks like the trilogy fight scheduled for July 10th at UFC 264 may be in jeopardy.
The two lightweight fighters lashed out at each other on social media Sunday about what actually brought them together at the beginning of the year: a donation from McGregor to Poirier’s charity, The Good Fight Foundation.
“That’s a fun prediction!” wrote Poirier, in reference to a knockout prediction from McGregor. “You also predicted a donation to my foundation and you and your team stopped responding after the fight in January. See you soon.”
McGregor responded in kind on Twitter writing “We’ve been awaiting the plans for the money that never came. I do with all my donations. Know where it’s going dot for dot. Otherwise it goes walking. As is the case with a lot of these foundations, sadly. You took the McG over the belt shows I was right.”
On Monday morning, McGregor went so far as to say the trilogy bout against Poirier was off, and he would “fight someone else on the 10th.” In another post eight minutes later, however, he threatened Poirier would pay for his comments with his physical well-being.
There’s been no official word on if the fight is canceled.