{"id":9910,"date":"2025-07-20T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9910\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:50:07","slug":"one-of-the-greatest-dustin-poiriers-ufc-318-retirement-prompts-sea-of-tributes-from-mmas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9910\/","title":{"rendered":"‘One of the greatest’: Dustin Poirier’s UFC 318 retirement prompts sea of tributes from MMA’s best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustin Poirier may not have gone out on top, but he retired a legend nonetheless<\/a>. The former UFC interim lightweight champion \u2014 and all-time great action fighter \u2014 called it a career on Saturday night after falling short in his Louisiana homecoming against Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 318.<\/p>\n

Despite coming into the bout up 2-0 in his series with Holloway, Poirier closed out his UFC run with a unanimous decision loss (48-47, 49-46, 49-46) in another back-and-forth brawl that nevertheless served as a worthy and emotional sendoff for the longtime fan favorite.<\/p>\n

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Poirier, 36, hangs up his gloves as one of the most celebrated fighters of his era. Despite never capturing an undisputed UFC title, “The Diamond” strung together a Hall of Fame r\u00e9sum\u00e9 over the course of a 14-year Octagon career, defeating a legendary list of top fighters across two divisions. Poirier’s catalog of conquests include Conor McGregor (x2), Eddie Alvarez, Justin Gaethje, Anthony Pettis and Dan Hooker, among many others.<\/p>\n

He also exits the sport tied for the fourth-most post-fight bonuses in UFC history (15), tied for the fifth-most finishes in UFC history (15), tied for most the finishes of current\/former\/future UFC champions (6), and tied for the sixth-most wins in UFC history (22) \u2014 a slew of records that speak to his uncommon longevity atop the game’s most talent-rich divisions.<\/p>\n

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Following his emotional farewell, a wave of Poirier’s peers within the fighting community paid tribute to “The Diamond” and the vast body of work he contributed to the game.<\/p>\n

For full coverage of UFC 318, including live results, play-by-play and highlights of the entire Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway 3 pay-per-view card, check out Uncrowned’s UFC 318 hub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier may not have gone out on top, but he retired a legend nonetheless. The former UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[9898,49,48,9897,1299,641,1698,638,82,640,9899],"class_list":{"0":"post-9910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-anthony-pettis","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dustin-jacoby","12":"tag-dustin-poirier","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-max-holloway","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-ufc-history"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","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=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}