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We are less than two weeks away from UFC 264 which features the highly-anticipated trilogy fight between Dustin Poirier and former two-division champion Conor McGregor. The event is scheduled to take place on July 10 at a sold out T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
While we are waiting for the summer showdown, the UFC is continuing to ramp up its promotion for the blockbuster event.
Most recently, the UFC released a new hype video for the event titled “The Man in the Arena.” The video features Poirier narrating a famous passage from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” speech that was delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France back in 1910.
Check it out:
The passage reads:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
The series between Poirier and McGregor is tied at 1-1, with McGregor winning the first meeting by TKO at UFC 178 in September 2014.
Most recently, the two squared off at UFC 257 on Abu Dhabi’s Fight Island in January where Poirier came away with his hand raised after a second-round TKO.
Who will win the trilogy fight? Sound off in the comments section below with your thoughts and predictions.
