{"id":6708,"date":"2025-07-18T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6708\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:55:06","slug":"dustin-poiriers-final-mma-faceoff-vs-max-holloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6708\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final MMA faceoff vs. Max Holloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-318-holloway-vs-poirier-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 318<\/a> ceremonial weigh-ins were the scene of Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final pre-fight faceoff as he crossed paths with BMF champ Max Holloway one last time ahead of Saturday&#8217;s trilogy bout.<\/p>\n<p>After a week of retrospective and celebration of his career, Poirier (30-9 MMA, 22-8 UFC) was showered with more positive energy as the Louisiana crowd backed him hard during the staredown with Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) on Friday in advance of the main event clash at Smoothie King Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/1205322\/531511\/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2F318&amp;subId1=MMAJUFC318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN+<\/a> pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+).<\/p>\n<p>Holloway was not intimidated, however, as he stood up to Poirier in front of the hostile crowd. &#8220;Blessed&#8221; will need to overcome that element at UFC 318 in addition to trying to avenge <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2012\/02\/04\/ufc-143-results-max-holloway-vs-dustin-poirier\/82501993007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a submission loss<\/a> to Poirier at UFC 143 in February 2012 and <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2019\/04\/14\/ufc-236-results-dustin-poirier-outlasts-max-holloway-in-stunning-battle-to-claim-interim-belt\/82050381007\/#:~:text=UFC-,UFC%20236%20results%3A%20Dustin%20Poirier%20outlasts%20Max%20Holloway%20in,battle%20to%20claim%20interim%20belt&amp;text=ATLANTA%20%E2%80%93%20Dustin%20Poirier%20(25%2D,in%20an%20action%2Dpacked%20classic.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a unanimous decision defeat<\/a> in the rematch at UFC 236 in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above to see the UFC 318 ceremonial weigh-in faceoff between Holloway and Poirier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2013\u00a0UFC 318 ceremonial weigh-ins were the scene of Dustin Poirier&#8217;s final pre-fight faceoff as he crossed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[5787,76,49,48,7408,1299,1161,3049,641,4441,2561,4225,1262,4440,1698,638,2034,5268,2694,44,5788,1333,2042,7409,82,865,640,923],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-5787","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dustin","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-fighting","tag-holloway","tag-inc","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-max","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-orleans","tag-news","tag-orleans","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-poirier","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-318"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","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=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}