Conor McGregor has told Dustin Poirier that he is coming for him at UFC 264, calling the American a 'silly hillbilly'.
The Notorious posted a threatening voice message to Poirier on Tuesday morning, just days away from their trilogy fight in Las Vegas.
Speaking in the recording, McGregor said: "Dustin... pea head... I'm coming for you pea head... silly hillbilly."
The Dubliner referred to Poirier as pea head ahead of their first bout in 2014, but ditched the trash talk prior to their rematch earlier this year.
Both men seem happy to verbally assault each other ahead of the trilogy bout and this Thursday's press conference should be interesting as it will be the first time the pair come face to face since the fight was announced.
Previously explaining why he called Poirier pea head, McGregor said: "A pea head is like a, you know, a pea that you eat. It's like a small little green pea. He just has an unusually small head I believe."
But Poirier was confused by the nickname, saying: "You know I can't even tell you the first time him calling me out. I think he called me pea head or something, which doesn't even make sense to me. I don't even know what that is."
The Diamond says he does not "give a f**k" if he is confronted by "crazy" McGregor ahead of UFC 264.
"The good thing about this one is if it’s crazy Conor again, I just don’t give a f**k anymore," he told ESPN.
"I really don’t care. And in the last one too, if he’d have been crazy, I’d have been alright. Mentally, I'm just not a kid anymore.
"I'm a grown man and I know what matters and I know what I can't control. I just don't beat myself up mentally like I used to with the critics.
"I think it’s going to be crazy Conor again, I’m pretty sure. How crazy can you be (though)? You got knocked out last time.
"We put you on airplane mode in front of the world, in Abu Dhabi. What can you say?"
Poirier has said he wants a "blood and guts war" with McGregor, adding: "If I was him, I would try to touch me early and keep me out of rhythm.
"Because if this thing starts to blossom into a fight, second, third, fourth, we start hurting in there, we start grinding it out, getting into a rhythm, I win that ten out of ten times.
"I want a blood and guts war, I want to question my will to fight, I want to be uncomfortable from the first second of the first round, I want to find out all this stuff.
"That's the thing about fighting, the only thing that's real is when that bell rings or whenever you show up and you're training, that's the only thing about fighting I love any more.
"Everything else is, who can say some cool s*** and get a lot of likes on Instagram, get a lot of followers, who can do some kind of funny video. It’s disgusting, it’s a fashion show, it’s all fake.
"The real part about it, when that bell rings, it’s a hundred percent real. I want to find that out about him, ‘you talk it up, but let’s see who really wants to fight’ because I know I can count on me."
