{"id":264298,"date":"2025-11-05T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:03:10","slug":"michael-chandler-shares-cordial-interactions-with-former-rival-dustin-poirier-on-road-house-2-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264298\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chandler shares &#8216;cordial&#8217; interactions with former rival Dustin Poirier on Road House 2 set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier put their past bad blood aside on the set of Road House 2.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier are undoubtedly two of the most exciting fighters in UFC lightweight history. Poirier announced his retirement from MMA in July, while Chandler is plotting a UFC comeback next year, potentially against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/michael-chandler\/michael-chandler-explains-why-hes-confident-conor-mcgregor-fight-will-happen-in-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poirier\u2019s three-time foe Conor McGregor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three years after their infamous showdown at UFC 281, Poirier and Chandler will reunite in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/heated-rivals-dustin-poirier-and-michael-chandler-set-to-reunite-in-road-house-film-sequel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming film Road House 2<\/a>, the sequel to the McGregor-starred remake. Poirier defeated Chandler by submission, but tensions remain thick in the months following the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their history of bad blood, Poirier and Chandler didn\u2019t brawl on the set of Road House 2 as they nearly did cageside at a pre-UFC 281 event.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier surprised each other with cordiality on Road House 2 set<\/p>\n<p>During a recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/qRnH8UJpBb4?si=t45UYaMgvspPLwqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>, Chandler shared how things went with Poirier on the set of Road House 2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood interactions\u2026number one, even if he hates my guts and I hate his guts, which isn\u2019t true, we just had some disagreements here and there. The respect that Dustin operates with and the respect I operate with, we\u2019re not there to make it about us,\u201d Chandler said of Poirier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think I\u2019m going to disrespect Jake [Gyllenhaal], and the production, with the stuff between him and me? It was cordial, more than cordial, bringing up stuff about our fight and talking about disagreements. Because obviously, you have Tyron, Wonderboy, MVP, and we\u2019re all talking as fighters\u2026it was cool, man. It was fine and he\u2019s a stud and I wish him well in his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very happy to hear he was coming on set and going to be in the movie, so it\u2019s going to be a really, really, really good movie with some really awesome people involved and attached [to it].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is expected to ramp up filming in 2026, with a to-be-announced release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Chandler and Dustin Poirier put their past bad blood aside on the set of Road House 2.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,1299,641,11197,638,122080,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-264298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dustin-poirier","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-michael-chandler","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-road-house-2","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}