Michael Chandler On His Title Fight Against Charles Oliveira, Poirier vs. McGregor 3 and Khabib Nurmagomedov's Retirement

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Michael Chandler details how he ended up getting a lightweight title shot in only his second UFC fight, his thoughts on Dustin Poirier turning down a chance to compete for gold in favor of a trilogy against Conor McGregor and the lightweight division moving on without Khabib Nurmagomedov after his retirement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media podcast network.
0:05.0	Damon Martin, mmafiting.com and I am here with the man who will challenge for the UFC
0:10.5	lightweight championship of the world in just about two months time.
0:14.8	Michael Chandler, Michael, welcome back and I talk about a crazy couple of weeks for
0:19.8	you, man.
0:20.8	Obviously, coming out of the big win in your debut, you wanted a title shot.
0:24.3	Guess what?
0:25.3	You're fighting for the title.
0:28.3	Yeah, man.
0:29.3	First of all, thank you for having me and yeah, secondly, man, it's been, uh, been crazy.
0:33.6	It's been a crazy last year, obviously, uh, betting on myself, fighting out my contracts
0:39.4	with Bellasore and then, uh, taking the leap to the UFC and, uh, a couple of opportunities.
0:45.8	I said yes to and then obviously knocking out Dan Hooker was a good start to kicking
0:50.5	down the door to the lightweight division and, uh, I said, yes, every way, uh, all the
0:55.6	way through and I'm being rewarded for it, I guess.
0:57.9	So, uh, we'll fight for that UFC title UFC Tuesday to two.
1:00.9	Let's go.
1:01.9	I love it.
1:02.9	I love it.
1:03.9	Kind of, kind of gave me a sense how this all came together because we heard rumors and
1:06.6	I know Justin Gates, he put out a tweet.
1:08.3	He thought he was going to fight you in May.
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