Dustin Poirier is in a strange spot in his career as he looks to bounce back from a second title fight loss at lightweight. The UFC star is looking to potentially move to welterweight and his coach, Mike Brown, thinks it would all the difference.

There have been talks of Dustin Poirier fighting Nate Diaz at welterweight and many fans are hoping the UFC can make it happen. Mike Brown believes moving up to welterweight will create the best Poirer, even better than lightweight.

“He’s plenty big for welterweight,” Brown recently told MMA Fighting. “Plenty big, 155 [pounds] is getting real difficult to make. I’m not certain. He could be a better welterweight than a lightweight. Time will tell, but he’s definitely not small for a welterweight.”

It seems Dustin Poirier agrees as well and isn't looking to move back to lightweight any time soon. The UFC fighter did an interview back in December and confirmed he was most likely done with lightweight.

“I don’t know if I’m going to make that cut again,” Poirier told MMA Fighting in December. “I might never fight at 155 pounds again. I don’t know the future. I could have cut a few more pounds. I could have come in at 152 on this fight. My cut went so smooth, I felt great.

“But I don’t know if I want to go through that training camp again where I’m hungry everyday and competing in the gym and pushing myself on the low calories. We’ll see, I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”