It’s very difficult to find the one, especially when you’re a mixed martial artist striving to make it to the top. For former UFC interim lightweight champion Dustin Poirier, he luckily found it at the right time.
“When I was in juvenile detention — and me and her might not have been dating at the time — she was writing me letters every week,” Poirier said of his wife Jolie on Outta Pocket with RGIII. “Besides my mother, the only letters I was getting was [from] her, and when I got out of juvenile detention, she was there. She drove all the way out to watch me leave and stuff like that, and I was like, ‘I’m going to marry this girl.’”
“The Diamond” plans to have one last fight in the UFC, and hopes to end his career with a bout in New Orleans this summer. In his most recent bout, Poirier lost a Fight of the Year contender to lightweight champion Islam Makhachev in the main event of UFC 302 this past June.
Poirier has seen the ups and downs of the sport, and in life itself. When it comes to self-belief, Poirier, like all of us, has it at times, and other times he doesn’t. But even when he was locked up in juvenile detention, Jolie believed in him even when Poirier couldn’t.
“For sure, the letters were always there,” Poirier explained. “She would always reply. I don’t even know how she got the address, or all this stuff like that, but she did, and she was always there. Honestly, not to sound corny, cheesy, bro, I wouldn’t have made it as far — because I was living with her since I was 18, since I was an amateur fighter... I wouldn’t have had an anchor to come back home to every night to cook a meal with, to watch a movie, to go to Blockbuster back in the day, to get takeout Chinese food, that was every weekend.
“I had a girl I loved, and she loved me, and I had somewhere to be. If I was that age and fighting, and known like I was at that young age, I wouldn’t have been on schedule at the gym every day, I wouldn’t have had to lay my head on a pillow at a certain time, I would’ve been cutting up with the rest of my buddies who were doing, you know, what they were doing. So I feel like having that to come home to, and a reason to be home every night, but also her belief, because a lot of times I didn’t believe in myself. She believed in me so much that it was hard to quit on myself whenever she thinks I can do whatever I want.”
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