{"id":180005,"date":"2025-09-30T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180005\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:11:11","slug":"dustin-poirier-wants-nate-diaz-in-zuffa-boxing-only-fight-id-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180005\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier wants Nate Diaz in Zuffa Boxing: \u2018Only fight I\u2019d take\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Poirier got for his final fight what few UFC fighters get: an epic sendoff in his hometown, headlining a card in New Orleans, Louisiana. UFC 318, dubbed \u2018The Last Dance,\u2019 featured \u201cThe Diamond\u201d facing Max Holloway for the third time. Dustin would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470801\/video-highlights-max-holloway-dustin-poirier-3-ufc-318-results-espn-ppv-new-orleans-retirement-bmf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lose a competitive decision<\/a> to \u201cBlessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Just over two months later, and Poirier is talking about one more last dance, this time for TKO\u2019s new Zuffa Boxing league against Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cZuffa Boxing 12rnds me and Nathaniel I\u2019d do it,\u201d Poirier wrote on X (formerly Twitter). \u201cOnly 1 more fight I\u2019d take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC fighter retirements rarely last long, but two months is short even for this sport. But Poirier pushed back when a fan replied with \u201cHere we go again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe not even going anywhere but someone asked me,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m retired I\u2019m done but Nate is one that got away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So this is nothing new. What is new is Zuffa Boxing, which will kick off in 2026 and could use a few major fights like Dustin Poirier vs. Nate Diaz to draw eyeballs. If there was ever a time this could happen, it would be now. Diaz recently tweeted saying he wanted to fight Terence Crawford next, so Poirier could be too small potatoes for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll keep you updated on whether this fight looks like it might come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poirier got for his final fight what few UFC fighters get: an epic sendoff in his hometown, headlining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-180005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180005","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=180005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}