Dustin Poirier refuses to let MMA retire him.
After establishing himself as one of the vital thrilling and beloved fighters of the previous 13 years, ‘The Diamond’ will lay down his gloves for good in his native New Orleans. However not earlier than headlining another pay-per-view occasion.
This Saturday, Poirier closes out each his profession and his trilogy with former featherweight king Max Holloway in a BMF title conflict at UFC 318.
At 36 years previous, Poirier continues to be competing on the high of his sport, most lately taking former light-weight champion Islam Makhachev into the fifth spherical earlier than succumbing to a d’arce choke. However as an alternative of permitting the game to resolve when it’s time to stroll away, the previous interim titleholder is taking destiny into his personal arms and selecting to retire whereas he nonetheless has loads of combat left in him.
“I don’t need the game to chew me up,” Poirier mentioned through the UFC 318 media day. “I need to stroll away—I don’t need it to retire me.”
“Anytime you noticed my identify on a combat card, you knew it was going to be a warfare. I hope folks keep in mind me as a warrior. I didn’t reduce corners. I all the time gave it my all.”
Dustin Poirier can shut out his profession with a clear sweep of Max Holloway
With greater than 30 UFC fights below his belt, Poirier has waged wars with a few of the finest within the enterprise, together with The Korean Zombie, Eddie Alvarez, Anthony Pettis, Justin Gaethje, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Charles Oliveira, Michael Chandler, and, in fact, Conor McGregor.
He enters his retirement bout already 2-0 towards Holloway, having crushed ‘Blessed’ through submission in 2012 and a unanimous choice in 2019.
