Dustin Poirier's boxing coach Dyah Davis is predicting another stoppage victory for his charge against Conor McGregor.
The two fighters will meet in the octagon for a third time at UFC 264 on July 10.
When they last met in January Poirier stopped the Dubliner in the second round of their lightweight contest.
And the American's boxing coach Davis thinks a similar story will unfold next month.
“Dustin is active, I think that definitely plays to his favor,” Davis told MMA Junkie.
“Conor was out of the game two, three years so ring rust can possibly play a factor in it, but listen, you’re a fighter. Conor is a fighter first and his job as a fighter is to be in the gym on a constant basis.
"You should be training, you should be sharpening your tools and that’s what Dustin does.
"Even if he doesn’t have a fight scheduled, he’s still in the gym, he’s still training, he’s still doing what he’s supposed to do.
"He’s still being responsible as a fighter.”
“I take this approach as if a lumberjack, we’re in a forest,” Davis said.
“The idea is to chop the tree down from the bottom and that’s exactly what we did.
"It’s a fight. So we look for any weaknesses that we could take advantage of and that was one of them.
"So we capitalized and we moved on from there and ended up finishing him with strikes.”
He added: “I think it’ll play out similar to the second fight, maybe a little bit longer. I see us executing and getting a KO victory in the third round.”
