{"id":815540,"date":"2026-07-22T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:31:10","slug":"bud-light-terminates-dustin-poirier-after-drunken-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815540\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Light Terminates Dustin Poirier After Drunken Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been almost a month to the day since former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion Dustin Poirier was arrested in Georgia on Father\u2019s Day<\/a> after an airport incident that initially resulted in a misdemeanor public drunkenness charge<\/a> and then things got worse when police body-camera footage was later released, showing a visibly intoxicated and agitated Poirier threatening to fight police before eventually being taken into custody (details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, despite the apology and sobriety, Bud Light<\/a> terminated Poirier\u2019s sponsorship contract immediately after the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey terminated my contract immediately,\u201d Poirier told Ariel Helwani today. \u201cIt\u2019s all good. I don\u2019t need that f\u2014king poison in my life. It sucks that my family loses out on the money I had left on the deal with them, which is a few hundred thousand dollars. But also, if I\u2019m representing something, if I\u2019m advertising something that I\u2019m not going to be taking part in, promoting stuff \u2014 it just is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poirier also made it clear that while some people can drink responsibly, he is not one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are plenty of people out there who do drink responsibly,\u201d Poirier said. \u201cI\u2019m not one. So, if you can drink responsibly, have fun, drink a Bud Light, drink whatever the hell you want. Be responsible, have a good time. I\u2019m not that person.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, yeah, it looks like Sean Strickland\u2019s public plea to Bud Light did not work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat made me so mad talking to Dustin and hearing things through the grapevine, I heard that Bud Light might let Dustin go,\u201d Strickland said recently. \u201cLet me tell you, that is the most un-American f\u2014king thing you can do. You spent $6 billion creating an addict. Creating someone that wants to grab this every time he\u2019s having a bad day and bring out the worst in him. And at his lowest time, contemplating letting him go. That is the most un-American thing you could do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBud Light, if you want to represent America, you stand by him and you help him,\u201d Strickland continued. \u201cThat\u2019s f\u2014king American.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alcohol sponsor is now out of Poirier\u2019s life, which may not be the worst thing for him personally if he is serious about staying sober. Financially, though, losing a deal worth a few hundred thousand dollars is obviously a major hit.<\/p>\n

The good news for Poirier is that he still has plenty of support elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Robert Graham, Celsius, Timex, TLF Apparel and his own Poirier\u2019s Louisiana Style Hot Sauce remain behind him.<\/p>\n

Maybe that is a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n

To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been almost a month to the day since former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,355513],"class_list":["post-815540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}