Holloway defeated Dustin Poirier in a unanimous decision to retain the UFC BMF Championship in UFC 318 at the Smoothie King Center. The win for Holloway is the first in three fights against Poirier, who beat him in 2012 and 2019.

Analyzing the aftermath of UFC 318, including Max Holloway's ceiling at lightweight and Dustin Poirier's unfulfilled fairytale end.

Max Holloway took advantage of his last chance to beat Dustin Poirier with a unanimous decision win over The Diamond at UFC 318 in his opponent's retirement fight in New Orleans on Saturday night.

While it is not for an official UFC title, Holloway is putting his BMF belt on the line. The first time these two met was at UFC 143 in February 2012, when Poirier forced Holloway to tap out. Then, over seven years later at UFC 236,

Alexander Volkanovski was interested in how Max Holloway would bounce back from his first KO loss, and came away very impressed.