One final time.
Former UFC featherweight champion, Max Holloway, will (completely) return to the 155-pound weight class in hopes of avenging two earlier losses to former interim light-weight titleholder, Dustin Poirier, atop the UFC 318 pay-per-view (PPV) occasion, lately made official for Sat., July 19, 2025 at Smoothie King Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The “BMF” title will probably be up for grabs of their five-round headliner.
Holloway (26-8) is trying to rebound from his knockout loss to Ilia Topuria at UFC 308 final fall. “Blessed” was submitted by Poirier once they first went to warfare at UFC 143 all the best way again in 2012, then went right down to “The Diamond” on factors once they ran it again for the substitute strap at UFC 236 in early 2019.
Poirier (30-9, 1 NC), three years older than the Hawaiian at 36, has not competed since falling to Islam Makhachev at UFC 302 final June. The Louisianan is predicted to retire within the wake of his closing Holloway combat, win or lose, and can undoubtedly be part of the promotion’s Corridor of Fame in some unspecified time in the future within the foreseeable future.
“I got here as much as them with the concept I’d love to put the gloves down the place I picked them up, in Louisiana,” Poirier advised Jim Rome. “The UFC hasn’t been right here in 10 or 11 years, so to convey the group, convey the UFC again to the state of Louisiana and retire right here it means so much to me.”
“I’ve been within the UFC so lengthy and executed a lot with them, I personally thought after I introduced this concept to them, since they haven’t been right here in so lengthy, that they’d type of brush it apart,” Poirier continued. “However they entertained it, and I used to be so excited once they referred to as me again and stated, ‘Hey, we’re going to get in contact with Louisiana, get in contact with New Orleans, and make one thing occur.’”
Count on extra UFC 318 combat card bulletins within the coming weeks.
