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Robert Hynes

Conor McGregor v Dustin Poirier 3: Start time, fight date, Irish TV information, fight card and more

Conor McGregor faces Dustin Poirier for a third time this weekend.

The Notorious suffered a shock defeat to the American back in January and is looking to set up a lightweight title showdown with newly crowned champion Charles Oliveira with victory in Las Vegas.

McGregor began his training camp in Dubai a couple of months ago before moving it to California in recent weeks.

Here's what you need to know:

Date

The fight will take place in the early hours of Sunday July 11, Irish time.

Venue

The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Start time

McGregor v Poirier is expected to start around 5am.

Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor face off during the UFC 257 Press Conference (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

TV information

BT Sport Box Office from 3am. The event costs €29.95 in Ireland.

Fight card

Main card

Dustin Poirier vs Conor McGregor - Lightweight

Gilbert Burns vs Stephen Thompson - Welterweight

Tai Tuivasa vs Greg Hardy - Heavyweight

Irene Aldana vs Yana Kunitskaya - Women's bantamweight

Sean O'Malley vs Kris Moutinho - Bantamweight

Pre-lims

Carlos Condit vs Max Griffin - Welterweight

Niko Price vs Michel Pereira - Welterweight

Dricus Du Plessis vs Trevin Giles - Middleweight

Quotes corner

Conor McGregor: "All the marbles are on the line.

"I'm here training very, very hard. I'm about to go for my second session of the day. I'm in great condition already.

"I beat him [Poirier] in the original bout [in 2014]. I lost in the rematch. And then we've got the trilogy, I've got a few little adjustments to make.

"I feel very, very confident. I'm very focused and driven.

"And I'll go in there and put on one hell of a performance and get it back on July 10th."

Dustin Poirier: "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."

Betting odds

Conor McGregor win: EVS

Dustin Poirier win: 4/5

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