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Former UFC Interim Lightweight Champion Dustin Poirier will have his final professional MMA fight against BMF Champion Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 218.
While Poirier is happy to be fighting Holloway, there were a few other fighters that Poirier initially wanted to face in his retirement fight.
“I was asking for [Justin] Gaethje,” Poirier told MMA Junkie. “I was asking [UFC CBO Hunter Campbell] and the UFC for Gaethje because we’re 1-1, I wanted to close out that trilogy. For some reason, they really wanted this fight, so I said, ‘OK, that’s cool’ because I respect the guy from my last fight. I don’t know what their thought process was putting this together for me and Max, but I have a lot of respect for him, so it made sense to me. I said, ‘Legends only.’ He definitely fits that.”
Holloway and Poirier have met twice before in the UFC, with Poirier winning both of those encounters.
Poirier would also like to leave UFC 218 with both a victory and the BMF Championship around his waist.
“If I can get my hand, be the last BMF champion and ride off into the sunset with the belt and retire, hey, that’s forever,” Poirier said. “Because I don’t think they would ever do it again unless something crazy happened. That would be dope.”
