Dustin Poirier's final fight ended in a unanimous-decision loss to Max Holloway in a thrilling UFC 318 main event Saturday night.

Dustin Poirier may not have gone out on top, but he retired a legend nonetheless. The former UFC interim lightweight champion — and all-time great action fighter — called it a career on Saturday night after falling short in his Louisiana homecoming against Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 318.

Dustin Poirier bid farewell to the combat sport on Sunday after losing his final fight to Max Holloway for the UFC BMF Championship in UFC 318 at the Smoothie King Center. Poirier said goodby by laying down his gloves on the mat inside UFC Octagon.

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The 36-year-old is laying the gloves down on his terms, and doing it while still competing at the top of one of the toughest weight classes in mixed martial arts (MMA). During his last fight against Islam Makhachev,

The promotion has released the UFC 318 cold open video, and it pays tribute to the rivalry between the two longtime UFC standouts, who have fought two times previously. Poirier beat Holloway in Holloway's promotional debut in 2012, then beat him for the interim lightweight belt in 2019.

Poirier 3 pairs two of the sport's last good guys as well as some of the final American PPV stars. "Some of these guys have characters or masks that they wear," Poirier told CBS Sports. "Whether it's fight week or I'm in the grocery store,