Dustin Poirier’s last post-combat press conference.
UFC 318: Dustin Poirier after the combat interview
The Winner of the UFC 318, Dustin Poirier, spoke with MMA Junkie and the journalists after the victory of the BMF title against Max Holloway in New Orleans.
New Orleans – UFC 318 served as a closing stadium for a legendary MMA career.
Dustin Poirier, a former UFC interim champion and a beloved figure in MMA, has officially made fights. He announced that he was retiring from the MMA, and the UFC built an event around him, opposing “Baddest Motherf * Cker” Max Holloway in the main event of the map, which took place at the King Center smoothie in his original state of Louisiana. UFC). He was not so embarrassed by defeat, but by the way he was seen by the judges seated cage.
“Obviously, I wanted to win. Max is a big fighter and hard,” said Poirier at the press conference after the UFC 318 fights. “I was just feeling, being inside the eye of the storm, it was just much closer to me. It was that it was 2-2 by entering the fifth. Mike Brown checked the dashboards when we arrived at the locker room, Judges gave me different tricks.
“Being in the fight, it was much closer than that. I heard the judges say 49 anything, and I said to myself:” No, average. It was closer than that. “But as man says, that’s what it is.”
The best pear tree moment in the fight came to the turn 2. He seriously injured Hawaii and continued to connect more. It seemed that he was not far from a finish. In this sequence, Poirier opted for his infamous strangulation of guillotine, which he calls “Guilly”, and could not obtain it.
Despite the same online memes and chatting on his guillotine strangulation, Poirier has no regrets.
“No, never. One last,” said Poirier. “And fucking, I thought it was going to be that one. I made him hurt, and he rolled in my back and I just couldn’t control it.”
Poirier, 36, closes his career on a sequence of two defeats, having lost against Islam Makhachev for the light title of the UFC in June 2024. This is the first time that Poirier has undergone consecutive losses in his 16 -year -old professional career. Although Unidéal, Poirier would not want it to be otherwise.
“I thought I had competed with the best guy in the world, and I thought it was close,” said Poirier. “I felt good in there. The cardio felt good. My movement was good. I wanted to. I wanted to go show that I can compete, to get closer, so that I could say that I am always at the top of my game, and I go out because I want it.
Although Poirier has never been able to become undisputed UFC champion, he leaves MMA as one of the most popular and appreciated figures in MMA. He was in 10 fighting fights, constantly in the running for the fight of the year, and fought the Who’s which in its division in the last decade.
“The Diamond” is proud of the legacy he built and felt the recognition of the MMA community throughout the fighting week.
“I made people feel certain ways and I inspired, and I didn’t think about it,” said Poirier. “Love and awareness have been incredible, and I really feel it. I’m just grateful that people were inspired and followed my trip. You can do everything you have put in mind, and that’s what I want my story.”
