{"id":181714,"date":"2025-10-01T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:38:10","slug":"poirier-vs-diaz-boxing-bout-how-does-it-play-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181714\/","title":{"rendered":"Poirier vs. Diaz Boxing Bout \u2013 How Does It Play Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/dustin-poirier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Poirier<\/a> is already considering a return to combat sports, but in the boxing ring. <\/p>\n<p>Poirier has expressed strong interest in facing long-time rival <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/tag\/nate-diaz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Diaz<\/a>  on a Zuffa Boxing card. Poirier\u2019s MMA career seemingly concluded in his hometown of New Orleans in July, following a unanimous decision loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mma\/players\/max_holloway\/408076\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Holloway<\/a> in their BMF trilogy fight at UFC 318. Despite the retirement, the opportunity to finally settle his feud with Diaz appears to be too tempting.  <\/p>\n<p>The rivalry between the two dates back to a scheduled fight at UFC 230, which Poirier claims Diaz \u201cnegotiated himself out\u201d of. Diaz has already proving his commercial viability in the boxing world with a majority decision win against Jorge Masvidal last July. A boxing match under the Zuffa banner would allow Poirier to test his hands in a new sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier is already considering a return to combat sports, but in the boxing ring. Poirier has expressed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-181714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181714","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=181714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}