{"id":39192,"date":"2025-08-02T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39192\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:55:07","slug":"dustin-poirier-announces-return-to-ufc-but-not-how-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39192\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier announces return to UFC, but not how you&#8217;d think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of weeks ago, Dustin Poirier faced Max Holloway at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mma\/ufc\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UFC <\/a>318.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the fight, it was made clear that it would be the last time he stepped into the octagon to fight.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he wasn&#8217;t able to go out with a bang and finish his career off with a win.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent announcement from Poirier himself suggests that he might not be done with the UFC just yet.<\/p>\n<p>How will Poirier return to the UFC?<\/p>\n<p>Hearing that Poirier is returning to the UFC just a couple of weeks after competing in his last fight might be slightly confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters have decided to come back despite retiring, as we&#8217;ve seen from people like Conor McGregor before.<\/p>\n<p>Although it does happen at times, it still won&#8217;t be the case for Poirier.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DustinPoirier\/status\/1951089922883936533\" rel=\"nofollow\">He went to X <\/a>on Thursday, posting, &#8220;Looking forward to getting back on the ESPN desk going to start focusing on that now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What he was referring to was his new job that he will be starting with ESPN, where he will be joining the commentary crew as an analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier is one of the most iconic UFC fighters who has stepped into the octagon.<\/p>\n<p>He has a career record of 30-10 (1) and a record of 22-9 (1) in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>It will be great hearing such an experienced fighter doing color commentating and breakdowns on the action once he joins ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MMA <\/a>is a complex sport that requires knowledgeable talking heads doing coverage, so it&#8217;s important to have people like Poirier join the commentary booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a couple of weeks ago, Dustin Poirier faced Max Holloway at UFC 318. Going into the fight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-39192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192","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=39192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}