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Dustin Poirier

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first: 2026-07-06
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“No, I felt good in the morning. You know, I spent the morning with my kids. My daughter wrote me a letter. She gave me presents, did all the Father's Day stuff. I had a great morning. But then when I left my home to go to fly out, I started feeling it, you know, Days leading up to that, it would come off and on, coming off and on, and I would think about my father, and it would kind of bring me down, but it wasn't that bad. But for Father's Day, it just hit me, man. It hit me hard.”
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“And I drank anyway. So, you know, not that my father, anything's an excuse. Obviously, I did what I did. But I knew better in the moment when I'm feeling like that to drink or do anything. Alcohol has never benefited me, especially in times like that where I'm mentally not the best.”
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“Part of that, me getting in trouble at the airport was. I just felt, and it's not my weight to carry, you know, but I just felt, I tried to help him out and he's back out on the street. It's like it almost doesn't want help, you know, and I was just kind of. On Father's Day, I was traveling to work with the Couldn't stop thinking about my father, and I started drinking in the airport. What led The incident is just, but when I feel like that, I've been going to therapy and stuff like that. Years ago, I started going to therapy. When I started feeling better, I stopped practicing everything I learned through therapy, you know? And then I felt that feeling again I guess depression just didn't feel well. And when I feel like that, I know I shouldn't drink.”
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“I mean, he He's ruined his marriages, he's ruined his relationships, he's ruined his Friendships he's ruined Relationships with his family, with his kids. Two sons, three, well, my little brother kind of is often on talking to him, but he has two kids that don't speak to him at all and won't. You know, he's been in jail plenty of times for alcohol-related stuff. Yeah, if I could paint a picture of what you think of a classic drunk or alcoholic, you know, very selfish Continues to go back to it. He's actually homeless right now.”
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“I don't have an answer what was going on. Not having anywhere to put my focus. I wasn't trying to be the best at something. I was just living day to day, doing whatever. You know, I didn't have any goals. I was a young kid. You know, it's tough to look back to that young and really say what I was thinking at that age. I was just being a kid, I guess.”
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“Gotten to some trouble at one of the times I was living with my father. I got into a fight. And physically hurt somebody in the fight and got arrested. And I was on probation at the time. And I wasn't going to school. Got picked up for truancy and some other things like that for not going to school and failed the drug tests. I was on probation at the time, failed the drug test, and then they sent me the juvenile detention.”
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“Yeah Me living in South Louisiana, we fought all the time, but I just kept doing it. I just kept going with fighting, you know?”
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“So I have two brothers I grew up with, two brothers and a sister I met when I was twenty five, twenty six years old from my father.”
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“Her and my grandmother raised me, she was, you know, everything. Mothers are everything. She still is, you know, calling me, texting me every day, checking on me, asking how I am.”
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“As a grown man, I look back and think my father was an idiot for. Not being there with his kids. As a father, I think about that. Waking up with my kids in the house running up to me, making them breakfast every day. Like, I couldn't, I never want to live that type of life. I can't even imagine it. So as an adult and a father looking back on it, I think he's... Made a lot of mistakes that, you know, I think he still lives with.”
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“Yeah, of course. I don't know what that's called split custody or something. Every other weekend I would go to his house, spend the weekend at his house, and”
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“Honestly, dude, not to turn it dark or anything, but the early memories I have of them together aren't the best. It's fighting and violence and stuff”
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“It was normal to me because I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I missed a meal or anything like that, but definitely wasn't rich or anything or had money to do a whole lot of things when I was younger. But I work in class family, you know?”
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“Father boxed. Growing up when he was younger My grandfather was in the Navy and worked in the oil field and stuff. They weren't successful fighters. I wouldn't say they were like nobody knew who they were, but definitely, yeah, I come from fighters for sure.”
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“I'm just a man trying his best, trying to provide for my family, learning as I go Not scared to work hard? Not scared to chase dreams. Just a kid from Lafayette, Louisiana, who? Found something to put his all into and try to become great at it with fighting.”
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“Last week Which is not new to me, like my emotions get the best of me, kind of was in a bad spot mentally, started drinking, got arrested. Got into some trouble with the airport in Atlanta. And, uh, Not proud of it, but it is what it is.”
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“No, nothing feels that void of what fighting was. And fighting was a part of therapy for me. And some days I wake up and I'm like, these top guys that are winning now on these upcoming cards, I can beat them still.”
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“Yeah, I'm trying not to tear up, dude. It was my life, man. Those gloves, me putting them on the mat is a piece of myself I left. But a wise man said, if a man's lucky gets to die twice. That part of me, that every day wake up, push yourself to be the best fighter you can be is dead. I'm retired, Dustin. I'm businessman, Dustin. Now, you know, it's just, I'm trying to figure it all out. Because the 20 years I was dreaming about being the best, I just want to dream again, you know?”
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“Where I was angry at the world, and I just couldn't stop thinking about my father. He's actually homeless right now. Can I try to help him out and he's back out on the street? Not that anything's an excuse, but it wasn't myself. And I never really spoke about it until right now, but I'm back in therapy. And when you sit down with somebody and start opening things up, you realize this could be linked to my childhood.”
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“My emotions got the best of me. Got arrested I just ruined everything that I was working for. You know, I don't know yet. It could have been so much worse.”
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“It's Father's Day, and I felt good in the morning. I spent the morning with my kids, but then as I was traveling to work, I felt that feeling again, it's like a cloud in my head that I just can't get out from under. So I started drinking.”
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