UFC 257 Pre-Fight Press Conference Video Live Stream: Conor McGregor Vs. Dustin Poirier 2

Conor McGregor fought once in 2020. According to the former UFC two-division champion, that fight was a success. McGregor met Donald Cerrone in a welterweight matchup in January 2020. McGregor won that contest by knockout 40 seconds into the first round. Despite the short duration of the bout, McGregor recently claimed the event, UFC 246, was the biggest selling UFC pay-per-view card of the year.

McGregor returns to the octagon on January 23, 2021 when he meets Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257. The card takes place on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi and streams on ESPN+ pay-per-view. UFC 257 is the first scheduled PPV card for the UFC in 2021.

McGregor and Poirier first met in 2014. McGregor scored a first-round knockout win over Poirier in that contest. Two fights later, McGregor won the interim featherweight title with a TKO victory over Chad Mendes. McGregor unified the lightweight titles in his next outing when he knocked out Jose Aldo in 13 seconds at UFC 194.

Poirier moved to lightweight after his loss to McGregor. He went on a four-fight winning streak before losing to Michael Johnson in 2016. Poirier’s record in his next five bouts was 4-0-0-1. That stretch earned him a shot at the interim lightweight title. Poirier won that belt with a unanimous decision win over Max Holloway. He lost to lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in a title unification bout in 2019. Poirier is coming off a June 2020 unanimous decision win over Dan Hooker.

After his win over Aldo, McGregor went 1-1 against Nate Diaz at welterweight. He followed those two bouts with a knockout win over Eddie Alvarez to earn the lightweight title. The UFC stripped McGregor of his two titles for inactivity. When he returned to action in October 2018, Nurmagomedov stopped McGregor via submission in the fourth round of their lightweight title contest. McGregor followed that loss with the Cerrone win.

McGregor and Poirier meet on Saturday in the main event of the UFC 257 pay-per-view card, which airs on ESPN+. Before that fight takes place, the UFC holds a press conference for the event on Thursday at 8:00 a.m. ET. You can watch that press conference live right here.