{"id":4410,"date":"2025-07-18T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4410\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:47:07","slug":"ufc-318-video-dustin-poirier-has-final-career-faceoff-vs-max-holloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4410\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 318 video: Dustin Poirier has final career faceoff vs. Max Holloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-318-holloway-vs-poirier-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 318;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 318<\/a> ceremonial weigh-ins were the scene of Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final pre-fight faceoff as he crossed paths with BMF champ Max Holloway one last time ahead of Saturday&#8217;s trilogy bout.<\/p>\n<p>After a week of retrospective and celebration of his career, Poirier (30-9 MMA, 22-8 UFC) was showered with more positive energy as the Louisiana crowd backed him hard during the staredown with Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) on Friday in advance of the main event clash at Smoothie King Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/1205322\/531511\/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2F318&amp;subId1=MMAJUFC318\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link  rapid-with-clickid etailiffa-link\">ESPN+<\/a> pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Holloway was not intimidated, however, as he stood up to Poirier in front of the hostile crowd. &#8220;Blessed&#8221; will need to overcome that element at UFC 318 in addition to trying to avenge <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2012\/02\/04\/ufc-143-results-max-holloway-vs-dustin-poirier\/82501993007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a submission loss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a submission loss<\/a> to Poirier at UFC 143 in February 2012 and <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2019\/04\/14\/ufc-236-results-dustin-poirier-outlasts-max-holloway-in-stunning-battle-to-claim-interim-belt\/82050381007\/#:~:text=UFC-,UFC%20236%20results%3A%20Dustin%20Poirier%20outlasts%20Max%20Holloway%20in,battle%20to%20claim%20interim%20belt&amp;text=ATLANTA%20%E2%80%93%20Dustin%20Poirier%20(25%2D,in%20an%20action%2Dpacked%20classic.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a unanimous decision defeat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a unanimous decision defeat<\/a> in the rematch at UFC 236 in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to see the UFC 318 ceremonial weigh-in faceoff between Holloway and Poirier.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/18\/ufc-318-video-dustin-poiriers-final-mma-faceoff-vs-max-holloway-trilogy-bmf\/85268184007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 318 video: Dustin Poirier&#039;s final MMA faceoff vs. Max Holloway;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 318 video: Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final MMA faceoff vs. Max Holloway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2013\u00a0UFC 318 ceremonial weigh-ins were the scene of Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final pre-fight faceoff as he crossed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,1394,786,1395,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-fighting","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","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=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}