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MMA Junkie Staff

UFC 281 ‘Thrill and Agony’: Dustin Poirier tells Michael Chandler ‘this is my house’ in testy exchange

Watch a preview for the latest edition of “The Thrill and the Agony,” which goes behind the scenes of UFC 281.

At the event, which took place Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Alex Pereira (7-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) dethroned Israel Adesanya (23-2 MMA, 12-2 UFC) with a late come-from-behind TKO to capture the middleweight title.

In the co-headliner, Zhang Weili (23-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) reclaimed her strawweight title when she submitted Carla Esparza (19-7 MMA, 10-5 UFC) in Round 2.

Finally, in the featured bout, Dustin Poirier (29-7 MMA, 21-6 UFC) submitted Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) in a Fight of the Night war.

In a preview of “The Thrill and the Agony” special from UFC 281, which is available for UFC Fight Pass subscribers, we get an all-access look at the immediate aftermath from all three fights, including a testy exchange between Poirier and Chandler that eventually smoothed over.

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