{"id":177765,"date":"2025-09-29T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177765\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:36:03","slug":"dustin-poirier-responds-to-fan-asking-if-he-misses-fighting-following-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177765\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier responds to fan asking if he misses fighting following retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC legend Dustin Poirier has revealed whether or not he misses fighting after his retirement from mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Dustin Poirier made the walk to the Octagon for the final time in his home state of Louisiana. He went out there and put on a really fun fight against long-time rival Max Holloway, and while he didn\u2019t pick up the victory, he certainly proved that he can still compete at the elite level. Alas, despite that, \u2018The Diamond\u2019 still made the difficult decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/it-was-the-right-time-for-dustin-poirier-to-retire-says-renowned-ufc-coach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hang up his gloves<\/a> and ride off into the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-receives-amazing-championship-belt-from-his-daughter-after-ufc-318-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Poirier receives amazing championship belt from his daughter after UFC 318 loss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since then, Poirier has spent a lot of time simply enjoying retirement with his family. He more than likely has secured his financial future ten times over and as a result, he can focus on other passions of his as he prepares for the next phase of his life.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DustinPoirier\/status\/1972511910886334473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent tweet<\/a>, however, Poirier admitted that he still misses the thrill that comes from competitive fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Im good, of course I do <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b9Dwyp5AIC\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/b9Dwyp5AIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DustinPoirier\/status\/1972511910886334473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poirier admits that he misses fighting<\/p>\n<p>Fan: \u201cMy man how are you, I wanna know do you miss fighting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DP: \u201cI\u2019m good, of course I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dustin has nothing left to prove in the fight game and if anything, we\u2019re excited to see what he does away from the cage. Whether it be commentary, analyst work or something entirely unrelated to mixed martial arts, it\u2019s bound to be great.<\/p>\n<p>What is your favorite memory from the career of Dustin Poirier? Do you believe there is any chance that he will return for one more fight and if so, who would you like to see it come against? Let us know, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC legend Dustin Poirier has revealed whether or not he misses fighting after his retirement from mixed martial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-177765","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-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177765","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=177765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}