Conor McGregor will win Dustin Poirier trilogy ‘in style’ says Tyson Fury

Conor McGregor has been backed to decisively beat Dustin Poirier in their Las Vegas trilogy next month by world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury.

The Gypsy King is a big fan of McGregor's and has claimed in the past that he would be willing to train with the Irishman, and he is now tipping him to defeat Poirier at UFC 264.

Speaking with former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping in a BT Sport interview, Fury said that he expects McGregor to get the win 'in style', because his career could be in jeopardy if he loses.

"It's Conor McGregor's final roll of the dice," Fury said. "If he loses this one it's curtains isn't it, I think he wins this one and I think he wins it in style, to be fair."

The current heavyweight champion will defend his own title at the same venue as Poirier v McGregor 3 just two weeks, also in a trilogy bout with Deontay Wilder in the T-Mobile Arena.

And he is hoping that the former two-weight champion takes his preparation seriously, and isn't 'acting like a rockstar' ahead of the massive bout, which could catapult him towards another lightweight title shot later in the year.

"With Conor, you never know what he's been doing," Fury continued. "You never know what he's been up to in training camps and all that.

"From what I hear, he lives like a rock star when he's like a week away from his fight, so you can't do that.

"When I'm in a training camp I'm 100% dedicated to the fight, I don't do anything, I go to bed early, wake up early, don't drink anything but water, I'm 100% dedicated to the job in hand.

"If I'm going out getting smashed in the nights before a fight, then I'm asking to lose."

McGregor stayed in Dubai after his loss to Poirier at UFC 257, the first by knockout in his MMA career.

And after welcoming his second son Rian with fiancee Dee Devlin in May, the Irishman has set off for California where he will finish training camp with long-time coaches John Kavanagh and Owen Roddy.

McGregor has never lost two in a row in his career, and even bookies are finding this third bout with Poirier to be a completely 50-50 fight.

He defeated the American by TKO within minutes the first time they fought at UFC 179 in 2014 before losing despite a favourite tag in their rematch almost six years later.

Meanwhile, Fury is in camp to face Deontay Wilder for a third time this summer after his initially planned bout with Anthony Joshua for August 14 was cancelled.

He has already drawn with and beaten Wilder in their previous two outings, but the American will get one last shot at the WBC belt thanks to an arbitration ruling that ordered Fury drop the Joshua fight to face him once more.

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