{"id":7814,"date":"2025-07-20T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7814\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:45:08","slug":"one-of-the-greatest-dustin-poiriers-ufc-318-retirement-prompts-sea-of-tributes-from-mmas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7814\/","title":{"rendered":"‘One of the greatest’: Dustin Poirier’s UFC 318 retirement prompts sea of tributes from MMA’s best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustin Poirier may not have gone out on top, but he retired a legend nonetheless<\/a>. The former UFC interim lightweight champion \u2014 and all-time great action fighter \u2014 called it a career on Saturday night after falling short in his Louisiana homecoming against Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 318.<\/p>\n

Despite coming into the bout up 2-0 in his series with Holloway, Poirier closed out his UFC run with a unanimous decision loss (48-47, 49-46, 49-46) in another back-and-forth brawl that nevertheless served as a worthy and emotional sendoff for the longtime fan favorite.<\/p>\n

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Poirier, 36, hangs up his gloves as one of the most celebrated fighters of his era. Despite never capturing an undisputed UFC title, “The Diamond” strung together a Hall of Fame r\u00e9sum\u00e9 over the course of a 14-year Octagon career, defeating a legendary list of top fighters across two divisions. Poirier’s catalog of conquests include Conor McGregor (x2), Eddie Alvarez, Justin Gaethje, Anthony Pettis and Dan Hooker, among many others.<\/p>\n

He also exits the sport tied for the fourth-most post-fight bonuses in UFC history (15), tied for the fifth-most finishes in UFC history (15), tied for most the finishes of current\/former\/future UFC champions (6), and tied for the sixth-most wins in UFC history (22) \u2014 a slew of records that speak to his uncommon longevity atop the game’s most talent-rich divisions.<\/p>\n

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Following his emotional farewell, a wave of Poirier’s peers within the fighting community paid tribute to “The Diamond” and the vast body of work he contributed to the game.<\/p>\n

For full coverage of UFC 318, including live results, play-by-play and highlights of the entire Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway 3 pay-per-view card, check out Uncrowned’s UFC 318 hub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier may not have gone out on top, but he retired a legend nonetheless. The former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[9755,64,63,9754,1394,786,1395,785,85,787,9756],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-anthony-pettis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dustin-jacoby","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-fighting","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","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=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}