{"id":11681,"date":"2025-07-21T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11681\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:23:08","slug":"video-watch-paid-in-full-ufcs-tear-jerking-tribute-to-dustin-poiriers-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11681\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Watch &#8216;Paid In Full,&#8217; UFC&#8217;s tear-jerking tribute to Dustin Poirier&#8217;s career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC sent Dustin Poirier into retirement with an emotional night in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the tribute to &#8220;The Diamond,&#8221; the promotion put together an incredible video titled &#8220;Paid In Full: The Dustin Poirier Story,&#8221; which first played during the UFC 318 broadcast before his final fight against Max Holloway.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Last of My Kind&#8221; by Shaboozey playing as the background track, Poirier sat in front of a large screen, watching moments throughout his career. Starting with clips from the 2011 documentary &#8220;Fightville,&#8221; Poirier watched and reacted to tear-jerking interviews with his family and former coaches, Harry Duhon and Tim Credeur.<\/p>\n<p>The video not only touched on Poirier&#8217;s career inside the cage, but outside, where he has made a big impact in his community with The Good Fight Foundation. Poirier added his own commentary as the clips of wins over Michael Chandler, Conor McGregor, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/20\/ufc-318-video-dustin-poirier-paid-in-full-tribute\/85302099007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch UFC&#039;s emotional tribute video to Dustin Poirier&#039;s career;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch UFC&#8217;s emotional tribute video to Dustin Poirier&#8217;s career<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC sent Dustin Poirier into retirement with an emotional night in New Orleans. As a part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,1299,641,11197,638,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-11681","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-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681","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=11681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}