Dustin Poirier hopes to end career on high note in front of home crowd, faces Holloway at UFC 318
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana native Dustin Poirier will get to fight one last time in the Octagon and this time it will be back in the Bayou State.Poirier will take on Max Holloway for the UFC BMF title Saturday night in the headline fight of UFC 318 in the Smoothie King Center.UFC 318 features five main card fights and 14 overall fights as the combat sport makes its return to New Orleans for the first time since 2015.Poirier (30-9), a native of Lafayette, announced in April that his fight against Holloway (26-8) will be the last of his career and he plans to retire after the match.“It’s a little surreal,” Poirier said. “All the pressure and obligations are still there and still thinking about all the fight stuff in my head. Every now and then though, it starts creeping into the back of my head that this is the last time I’m doing this.“I don’t come from a place with silver spoons and a lot of money. All the fights that I have had all over the world, a lot of people don’t get to go. To be so close to home (for…
16 Jul 22:36 · iNFOnews.ca