{"id":8020,"date":"2025-07-19T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8020\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:26:07","slug":"ufc-318-full-fight-dustin-poirier-max-holloway-win-fight-of-the-night-in-epic-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8020\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 318 full fight: Dustin Poirier, Max Holloway win Fight of the Night in epic rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rematch between Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway was everything people expected, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019, Poirier and Holloway met for a second time, this time headlining UFC 236 and competing for the UFC interim lightweight title. The two had previously met in a featherweight bout at UFC 143 in 2012, where Poirier defeated Holloway by submission, handing him a loss for his UFC debut.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the rematch, the two went toe to toe for all five rounds. Poirier ended up winning a unanimous decision and taking the interim title. The bout also won Fight of the Night awards, alongside Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum in the co-main event of the card.<\/p>\n<p>You can rewatch Poirier vs. Holloway 2 in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier (30-9 MMA, 22-8 UFC) and Holloway (26-8 MMA, 22-8 UFC) meet a third time this Saturday in the main event of UFC 318 (pay-per-view, ESPN, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/1205322\/531511\/9070?u=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.espn.com%2Fufc%2F318&amp;subId1=MMAJUFC318\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link  rapid-with-clickid etailiffa-link\">ESPN+<\/a>), which takes place at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The bout is set to be Poirier&#8217;s farewell from MMA, as he intends to retire from the sport after the fight.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/07\/19\/ufc-318-dustin-poirier-vs-max-holloway-2-full-fight-video\/85260025007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway free fight: UFC 236 rematch wins FOTN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway free fight: UFC 236 rematch wins FOTN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rematch between Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway was everything people expected, and more. Back in 2019, Poirier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,1299,641,1698,638,82,640],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dustin-poirier","tag-fighting","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}