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Published 07:58 27 Oct 2015 GMT
Updated 10:14 27 Oct 2015 GMT
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“Ha, that’s a joke, man. Parke’s an easy fight. I said that from the jump. Hey, I saved Norman Parke’s career. He should be thankful this weekend I didn’t fight him. He would have been 0-3 in his last three fights, and he would be getting his walking papers. He’s lucky.”Parke admitted in the post-fight press conference that after dropping successive losses to Gleison Tibau and Francisco Trinaldo, he was fighting for his career in the 3 Arena. Fighters who go 0-3 in the promotion, rarely live to tell the tale. Although he feels he would have easily defeated Parke, Poirier revealed it was fear of injury that caused him to turn down the fight.
“All it would have been was a paycheck. What if I had I broken my hand? What if I had torn my ACL? It’s more than just, ‘Let me get this paycheck.’ Norman Parke, for sure, is an easy fight. He’s going to try to lean on you, and he’s slow. I could go on and on. This is the thing. I’m a prize fighter, and the prize wasn’t right. That’s why I didn’t fight.”
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